Author Pankaj Mishra wins $150,000 Yale literary prize

• Award-winning Indian author Pankaj Mishra is among eight writers from seven countries who have won a $1,50,000 Yale University prize each in recognition of their literary achievements. 
• Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist, memoirist, travel writer and novelist. 
• The award was announced by The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale. 
• As this news is among International Current Affairs , he has made India proud on international level.

Note : 

• Pankaj Mishra won 150000 dollar Yale University prize. Also seven other writers won this value.
• All eight writers will accept the prize in person at a ceremony at Yale on 15th September 2014.
• Other winners in the three categories are: 
  In fiction: Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone), Nadeem Aslam (Pakistan) and Jim Crace (United Kingdom)
  In non—fiction: John Vaillant (United States/Canada) 
  In drama: Kia Corthron (United States), Sam Holcroft (United Kingdom) and Noelle Janaczewska (Australia).
• In addition to a novel The Romantics, Mishra had published four works of nonfiction:                                                                                                     Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India ,                       An End to Suffering: the Buddha in the World ,                               Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India,                     Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond and From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia.