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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  (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.

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Upcoming events:
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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