MARTIN PUCHNER

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News:
- New book, Literature for a Changing Planet, Feb. 8.
- Language of Thieves long-listed for Wingate prize.
- German edition, Die Sprache der Vagabunden, just out.

- My review of Ferrara's book on writing in the New York Times.
- Publishers Weekly review of Literature for a Changing Planet.
- Excerpt from Literature for a Changing Planet on LitHub.
- 2021 Humboldt Prize.
- Rotwelsch on German TV.
- Oped on language and the New Right, in LA Times.
- Op-ed on the last four years, LA Times.
- The Language of Thieves is NYTimes Editors' Choice book.
- Just out: Iranian edition of The Written World, with interview.
- Review of Language of Thieves in NYTimes.
- Pre-pub review of Language of Thieves in Publishers Weekly.
- Read and excerpt of Language of Thieves in CrimeReads.
- Interview with Beijing News.
- 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, Iran, Ukraine, Turkey, Saudi Arabia (more on the way).
- The Written World on WSJ bestseller list; NYTimes Editors' Choice.
- 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 literature in careers of Obama and Trump (Irish Times).
- Ten Books that Changed the World (Granta).
- Guggenheim fellowship.
- 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.

Upcoming event, Literature for a Changing Planet:
- January 12: Harvard bookstore, 7:30pm.
- January 15: Crimson Global Essay Competition, 9am.
- January 16: Phoenix Book Club.
- January 18: Boston Athenaeum, 12 pm.
- January 23: English Literature Summit, 7am EST.
- February 8: pub date, Literature for a Changing Planet.
- February 9: Copperfield Books, 9pm EST.
- April 13, Child Memorial Lecture, American University.

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