Pankaj Mishra: Award-winning Indian author, he is among eight writers from seven countries who have won a $1,50,000 Yale University prize each in recognition of their literary achievements. Essayist and novelist Mishra was selected for the prestigious Windham Campbell Literature prize in the non-fiction category. In addition to a novel, “The Romantics”, he has published four works of non-fiction, including “From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia”.