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Martin Puchner

Martin Puchner
Martin Puchner is the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is a prize-winning and bestselling author whose books include The Language of Thieves: My Family’s Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate and The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization. He is the general editor of The Norton Anthology of World Literature. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Twitter @martin_puchner


Martin Puchner on the Climate Lessons from the Epic of Gilgamesh

“How should we humans narrate our self-made climate disaster?”
February 9, 2022  By Martin Puchner
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The Language Police Were Terrifyingly Real. My Grandfather Was One.

Martin Puchner on Rotwelsch, an Elusive Language of Central Europe
November 20, 2020  By Martin Puchner
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Writing Poetry Under Stalin: Samizdat and Memorization

"Worse Than a State Indifferent to Poetry was One Obsessed With It"
November 2, 2017  By Martin Puchner
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