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News
- Martin Puchner publishes The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization (Random House).

- The Written World on sale: $4,99.
- The Written World is on WSJ bestseller list, No 8, Non-Fiction ebook.
- 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:
- February 4, Bavarian-American Academy, Munich, Germany
- February 6, University of Eichstaett, Germany
- February 20, Goethe Society Nuremberg
- March 1-4, Emirates Literary Festival
- March 11, Prague
- March 28, Bard Berlin
- April 5, Barcelona
- April 9, American Academy in Berlin
- May 5, Austrian Cultural Forum, Berlin
- May 15, University of Athens
- May 17, Center for Hellenistic Studies, Athens
​- June 4, British Library
- June 15, Queen Mary University, London
- June 24, Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research, Harvard

To book an event, contact Allyson Lord, Random House.

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