Pankaj Mishra wins for non fiction

Pankaj Mishra, essayist, memoirist, travel writer and novelist is one of the eight winners of the Windham Campbell Literature Prize, 2014 in the non-fiction category. He will receive $150,000 in recognition of his achievements and as support for ongoing work. The award announcement said of him- “Pursuing high standards of literary style, Pankaj Mishra gives us new narratives about the evolution of modern Asia…. and rebuffs imperialist clichés with equal verve”.