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News
:
- New book,
Culture: The Story of Us
, Feb. 7.
-
Culture
wins
PNPA book award
.
-
Culture
is New York Times
Editors' Choice book
.
- Early reviews of
Culture
in
NYTimes
,
WSJ
, and
Boston Globe
.
- Alexander Kluge makes a
totally cool short film
based on the Ben Franklin chapter of
The Written World
.
-
Language of Thieves
long-listed for
Wingate prize
.
- German edition,
Die Sprache der Vagabunden
, just out.
-
FT review
of
Literature for a Changing Planet:
best book of the week
.
- My review of Ferrara's book on writing in the
New York Times
.
-
Sprache der Vagabunden
is Humboldt Book of the Week.
- 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.
- Review of Language of Thieves in
NYTimes
.
- Read and excerpt of
Language of Thieves
in
CrimeReads
.
-
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 (
I
rish 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
s:
Jan 23: Jaipur Literary Festival
Jan 31:
Cambridge Forum/WGBH
(free)
Feb. 6:
Boston Athenaeum
(official book launch)
Feb. 11: Crimson Writers Conference
Feb. 17:
92nd Street Y
, New York
Feb. 24: 92nd Street Y, New York
Feb. 27:
How to Academy
, online, 6:30 GMT
March 1: BBC London Radio, 4:30pm
March 3:
Steiner Lecture
, Queen Mary, London
March 8: BBC Radio 5 Live, 2pm
March 9, Copperfield Books (
online
), 12pm Pacific
March 17, With Andrew Keen,
Keen On
March 17, In conversation with Ed Vaizey,
Times Radio
March 19, Phoenix Book Club (online)
March 25, Renmin University, Beijing
April 3,
Digital Museum
(online), 3pm BST
April 21, Xiamen University
April 24:
Intelligence Squared
(online)
May 3: University of Erlangen/Nuremberg
May 12: University of St. Gallen
May 15:
Bath Literary Festival
May 16-June 30: Villa I Tatti
June 12: Pescara, BACH (Biobehavioral Arts and Culture)
July 2: Chalke Valley Festival
July 8-13: Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla
July 15-19: Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
September 5: Oslo National Library
September 6: Digital Life Design, Munich
September 12: Center For Fiction, New York City
September 18: Yale University
September 22/23: Jaipur Literary Festival, Colorado
September 28: Ohio University
October 6, Yale, Dalit Art and Writing on a Global Stage
October 9, Cultural Policy, Bavarian Cultural Policy Group
November 2/4: Utopia Literary Festival, Braga, Portugal
November 9: Charleston Literary Festival
November 16: Harvard Club of Andover
January 11: Digital Life Design, Munich, Germany
January 25: Zurich Philosophietage
January 29: Emirates Literary Festival. Dubai
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