7–9pm
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97–99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL
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A Discussion Group session on history, class and culture, led by novelist and essayist Pankaj Mishra.


Biography:

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Pankaj Mishra writes literary and political essays for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, The New Yorker, London Review of Books, Bloomberg View, among other American, British, and Indian publications. His work has also appeared in Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Time, The Independent, Granta, The Nation, n+1, Poetry, Common Knowledge, Outlook, and Harper’s.  He was a visiting professor at Wellesley College in 2001, 2004, and 2006. In 2004–05 he received a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library. For 2007–08, he was the Visiting Fellow at the Department of English, University College, London. In 2009, he was nominated a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2014, he received Yale University’s Windham-Campbell Literature Prize.