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Pankaj Mishra Biografía y Hechos
Pankaj Mishra (Paṅkaja Miśrā; Jhansi, 1969) es un ensayista y novelista indio. Biografía Educación Mishra se graduó con una licenciatura en Comercio por la Universidad de Allahabad antes de obtener su grado de Maestría en Artes en Literatura Inglesa en la Universidad Jawaharlal Nehru de Nueva Delhi.[1] Carrera En 1992, Mishra se trasladó a Mashobra, un pueblo del Himalaya, donde comenzó a contribuir con ensayos literarios y comentarios para The Indian Review of Books, The India Magazine, y el periódico The Pioneer . Su primer libro, Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India (1995), era un diario de viaje que describen los cambios sociales y culturales en la India en el contexto de la globalización. Su novela The Romantics (2000), un relato irónico de las personas con un anhelo de plenitud en culturas distintas de la propia, fue publicada en 11 idiomas europeos y ganó el diario Los Angeles Times premio Arte Seidenbaum para la primera ficción. Su libro de 2004 An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World se mezcla la memoria, la historia y la filosofía al intentar explorar la relevancia de Buda hasta la época contemporánea. Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond (2006), describe los viajes de Mishra a través de Cachemira , Bollywood , Afganistán, Tíbet, Nepal y otras partes del Sur y Asia Central. El libro de Mishra De las ruinas de los Imperios (2012) examina la cuestión, dice, "cómo encontrar un lugar de dignidad para uno mismo en este mundo creado por el oeste, en el que Occidente y sus aliados en lo no occidental habían reservado las mejores posiciones para sí mismos".[2] En 2005, Mishra publicó una antología de la escritura en la India, la India en mente . Sus escritos han sido anthologised in The Picador Book of Journeys (2000), The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature (2004), Away: The Indian Writer as Expatriate (2004), y "A History of Indian Literature in English" (2003), entre muchos otros títulos. Mishra ha escrito ensayos literarios y políticos para el New York Times, el New York Review of Books, the Guardian, el London Review of Books, y el New Yorker, entre otros medios americanos, británicos, y en publicaciones de la India. Es columnista de opinión en Bloomberg View y el New York Times Book Review . Su trabajo también ha aparecido en Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Boston Globe, Common Knowledge, the Financial Times, Granta, The Independent, the New Republic, the New Statesman, the Wall Street Journal, n+1, The Nation, Outlook, Poetry, Time, The Times Literary Supplement, Travel + Leisure, y The Washington Post. Divide su tiempo entre Londres y la India, y actualmente está trabajando en una novela.[1] Fue el miembro visitante en 2007-08 en el Departamento de Inglés, de la University College de Londres en Reino Unido. Fue elegido miembro de la Real Sociedad de Literatura en 2008.[3] En noviembre de 2012, la Foreign Policy Magazine lo nombró una de las 100 mejores pensadores mundiales.[4] En febrero de 2015, la perspectiva le nombró a su lista de 50 pensadores Mundial.[5] En marzo de 2014, la Universidad de Yale galardonó a Mishra con el Premio Windham-Campbell de Literatura.[6] Reconocimientos 2000 Premio Arte Seidenbaum a la mejor primera ficción 2013 Premio del Libro Crucigrama (no ficción) de entre las ruinas del Imperio.[7] 2014 Premio del Libro de Leipzig para el Entendimiento Europeo por De las ruinas de los Imperios 2014 Premio de Literatura Windham-Campbell (no ficción), valorado en 150.000$ uno de los mayores premios en el mundo en su género.[8] 2014 Premio Internacional D'Assaig Josep Palau i Fabre Obras Libros Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India (1995) The Romantics (1999) An End to Suffering: the Buddha in the World (2004) India in Mind, edited by Pankaj Mishra (2005) Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond (2006) Kashmir: The Case for Freedom (2011) De las ruinas de los imperios: la rebelión contra Occidente y la metamorfosis de Asia (2012) A Great Clamour: Encounters with China and Its Neighbours (2013) Age of Anger: A history of the present (2017) Bland Fanatics (2020). Referencias Enlaces externos Wikimedia Commons alberga una categoría multimedia sobre Pankaj Mishra. Sitio web oficial. Descubre los libros populares de Pankaj Mishra. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Pankaj Mishra
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3 Books To Know Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Booth Tarkington, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather & August NemoWelcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fi...
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Speaking of Faith
Krista TippettA thoughtprovoking, original appraisal of the meaning of religion by the host of public radio's On Being Krista Tippett, widely becoming known as the Bill Moyers of radio, is one o...
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The Argumentative Indian
Amartya SenIndia is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. The Argumentative Indian b...
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The Science of Hate
Matthew WilliamsWhy do people hate? A worldleading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate crime, analysing human behaviour across the globe and throughout history in t...
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Philosophy and Social Hope
Richard RortyRichard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider a...
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The Age of Unpeace
Mark LeonardA FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Compulsively readable... An essential course in geopolitical selfhelp' Adam Tooze'Full of fresh and often surprising ideas' Niall F...
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3 Books To Know Russian Literature
Alexander Pushkin, León Tolstói, Fiódor Dostoyevski & August NemoWelcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fi...
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Turning the Mirror: A View From the East
Howard BurtonThis book is based on an indepth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and awardwinning writer Pankaj Mishra.They discuss several of Pankaj’s books, including From the Ruins of...
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One Small Voice
Santanu BhattacharyaAN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL FOR 2023'A joy to read, a full universe of feeling, an effortless pageturner by a born storyteller' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feath...
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What Is Populism?
Jan-Werner Müller'There is no better guide to the populist passions of the present' The New York TimesDonald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chávez populists are on the rise acros...
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Narconomics
Tom WainwrightEverything drug cartels do to survive and prosper they’ve learnt from big business – brand value and franchising from McDonald’s, supply chain management from Walmart, diversificat...
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The War Against the BBC
Patrick Barwise & Peter YorkThere's a war on against the BBC. It is under threat as never before. And if we lose it, we won't get it back.The BBC is our most important cultural institution, our bestvalue ente...
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The Athenian Constitution
Aristóteles & Peter RhodesProbably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the seventh and fourth centuries BC, ...
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The Last Englishmen
Deborah BakerWinner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 2019An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order.Joh...
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What You Have Heard Is True
Carolyn ForchéCarolyn Forché is 27 when a mysterious stranger calling himself Leonel appears on her doorstep, having driven direct from El Salvador. A friend has heard rumours about who he mig...
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The Defence of the Realm
Christopher Andrew'Sensationally good ... A riveting story, the reallife spooks and spies far more compelling than anything you will see on the screen ... history doesn't come more fascinating t...
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Whiteshift
Eric KaufmannTHE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018Whiteshift tells the most important political story of the 21st century: how demographic chang...
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The Responsible Globalist
Hassan Damluji'Thought provoking and wellwritten... a good read for people who care about solving global problems. Damluji puts forth ideas that can help make global systems more successful' Bi...
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The European Union: A Citizen's Guide
Chris BickertonThe essential Pelican introduction to the European Union its history, its politics, and its role todayFor most of us today, 'Europe' refers to the European Union. At the centre of...
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The Arabs
Eugene RoganEugene Rogan has written an authoritative new history of the Arabs in the modern world. Starting with the Ottoman conquests in the sixteenth century, this landmark book follows the...
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The Alexiad
Anna Komnene & E. R. A. SewterA revised edition of Anna Komnene's Alexiad, to replace our existing 1969 edition. This is the first European narrative history written by a woman an account of the reign of a Byz...
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Black Ghost of Empire
Kris ManjapraA revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic worldTo fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed ...
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An Uncertain Glory
Jean Drèze & Amartya SenFrom two of India's leading economists, Jean Drèze (Hunger and Public Action) and Nobel Prizewinner Amartya Sen (The Idea of Justice), An Uncertain Glory is a passionate, considere...
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Here Comes Everybody
Clay ShirkyWelcome to the new future of involvement. Forming groups is easier than it's ever been: unpaid volunteers can build an encyclopaedia together in their spare time, mistreated custom...
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Time's Monster
Priya SatiaCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original...
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Pakistan on the Brink
Ahmed RashidWith Bin Laden dead, Pakistan threatened by internal power struggles, relationships between the United States and Pakistan at an alltime low, and as the US and Britain begin their ...
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Freedom Song
Amit ChaudhuriKhuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayer wakes her up early every morning; her husband, a retired businessman, has been hired to cure a 'sick'...
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Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth Book 2
Peter KelderPicking up where Peter Kelder's remarkable book left off, Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth, Book 2 completes the Fountain of Youth health programme, with detailed informatio...
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Forgotten Armies
Christopher Bayly & Tim HarperThe vast crescent of Britishruled territories from India down to Singapore appeared in the early stages of the Second World War a massive asset in the war with Germany, providing h...
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Farewell to the Horse
Ulrich Raulff & Ruth Ahmedzai KempTHE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A beautiful and thoughtful exploration of the role of the horse in creating our world' James Rebanks'Scintillating, exhilarating ... ...
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India
French, Patrick & Patrick FrenchOne of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backw...
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Run And Hide
Pankaj MishraFROM THE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF AGE OF ANGER COMES A GATSBYESQUE TALE OF WEALTH AND AMBITION'A book that demands to be read' MOHSIN HAMID 'Terrific . . . deeply satisfying to rea...
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A Fiery & Furious People
James SharpeChosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, History Today and the Sunday Telegraph‘Wonderfully entertaining, comprehensive and astute.’ The Times‘Genuinely hard to put down.’ BBC Hi...
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3 Books To Know French Literature
Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola & August NemoWelcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fi...
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A New World
Amit ChaudhuriA year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee, an economics professor in the American Midwest, travels home to Calcutta with his young son, Bonny, to spend the summer holidays with ...
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The Global Merchants
Joseph SassoonThe astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East'The Sassoons were one of the great business d...
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Istanbul
John FreelyIstanbul's history is a catalogue of change, not least of name, yet it has managed to retain its own unique identity. John Freely captures the flavour of daily life as well as cour...
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Statesmanship
Varios ArtistasNo British periodical or weekly magazine has a richer and more distinguished archive than The New Statesman, which has long been at the centre of British political and cultural lif...
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The Egyptians
Jack ShenkerFrom awardwinning journalist Jack Shenker, The Egyptians is the essential book about Egypt and radical politicsIn early 2011, Cairo's Tahrir Square briefly commanded the attention ...
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The Romantics
Pankaj MishraWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'If you buy one literary novel this year, make sure it's this' THE TIMES'The Romantics looks to Flaubert's Sentimental Education, to E.M. Forst...
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WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
Tim O'Reilly‘The man who can really make a whole industry happen.’ Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google‘A punchy and provocative book . . . WTF? is an insightful and heartfelt plea, dari...
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The Scramble for China
Robert BickersIn the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolve...
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3 Books To Know Orientalism
Gustave Flaubert, Rudyard Kipling, León Tolstói & August NemoWelcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fi...
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The Immortals
Amit ChaudhuriIncludes a new foreword by Pankaj MishraBombay in the 1980s: Shyam Lal is a highly regarded voice teacher, trained in the classical idiom but happily teaching more popular songs to...
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Descent into Chaos
Ahmed RashidSince 9/11, the war in Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq, the West has been fighting a ‘War on Terror’, through force and through the building of new societies in the region. In...
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The Shape of the Beast
Arundhati RoyThe Shape of the Beast is our world laid bare by a mind that has consistently and unhesitatingly engaged with its changing realities and often anticipated the way things have moved...
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Thank You for Being Late
Thomas L. FriedmanThe new international bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The World is Flat this is an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the twentyfirst ce...
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3 Books To Know German Literature
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane & August NemoWelcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fi...
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An Autobiography
M. K. Gandhi & Mahadev DesaiThe life of Gandhi, in his own words. Featuring a new introduction by Pankaj Mishra in this 150th Anniversary Edition. 'Christ gave us the goals and Mahatma Gandhi the tactics' Ma...
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We Need New Stories
Nesrine MalikIt is becoming clear that the old frames of reference are not working, that the narratives used for decades to stave off progressive causes are being exposed as falsehoods. Six myt...