Book prize for Indian historian
Pankaj Mishra has been awarded the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2014.
VIEW FROM THE OUTSIDE. The Indian political essayist and historian Pankaj Mishra has been awarded the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2014 for his book “From the Ruins of Empire – The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia”. According to the jury, “It is the non-European view of the west which makes Pankaj Mishra’s enlightening work essential for Europe’s self-understanding about its own role in today’s world.” The Leipzig Book Prize is endowed with prize money of 15,000 euros and has been awarded annually since 1994 at the opening of the Leipzig Book Fair. Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He has published a number of essays in German in the cultural magazine Lettre International. His winning book was published by Penguin.
