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News
- New book, The Language of Thieves, forthcoming 10/13.

- First review of Language of Thieves in Publishers Weekly.
- Interview with Beijing News.
- New initiative, Stories for the Future, launched.
- The Written World wins Massachusetts Book Award.
- The Written World available in translation: Brazil, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, Slovenia (more on the way).
- The Written World on WSJ bestseller list; NYTimes Editors' Choice.
- Martin Puchner wins Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin
- The Story of Literature--in 1001 Words (BBC)
- The Technological Shift Behind the World's First Novel (Atlantic)
- Op-ed on world literature in Alabama (Inside Higher Ed)
- Op-ed on literature in careers of Obama and Trump  (Irish Times).
- Ten Books that Changed the World (Granta).
- Martin Puchner wins Guggenheim fellowship.
- Martin Puchner wins Cullman fellowship at the New York Public Library.
- New Norton Anthology of World Literature, with Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey, especially commissioned for this edition.

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Upcoming events:
- July 28, 2020, 1:30-2:30 livestream, NYPL, Penn, CUNY. In conversation with Peter Constantine and Tess Lewis about The Language of Thieves and other dying languages.

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