Pankaj Mishra

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Novelist and essayist Pankaj Mishra talks about his return to writing fiction after a gap of two decades.

Mishra’s Run and Hide is a story about Arun, who enrols at the Indian Institute of Technology, and the two friends he makes who are prepared to go to unimaginable lengths to succeed. Arun’s friends become the success stories of their generation, and their Gatsby-style lives play out through expensive cars and private planes and across the world from New York to Tuscany. However, they are about to pay a price for their transgressions.

‘It captures the trajectory of our time through insights and moments that are startling, pure, and have a strange inevitability’ Amit Chaudhuri

Mishra’s books include The Romantics, which won the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for Fiction. His works of non-fiction include Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India;  Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond; and From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia. Mishraj received the 2014 Yale University Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. He writes for the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker. Here he talks to professor Merve Emre, associate professor of English at the University of Oxford and author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America.