Harvard Prof Wins National Book Award
Stephen Greenblatt won in the non-fiction category for his book 'The Swerve: How The World Became Modern"
Stephen GreenblattHarvard humanities professor, Stephen Greenblatt, has won the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
His book “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern” (Norton) emerged victorious at last night’s New York ceremony, where Greenblatt received a bronze statue and $10,000. “The Swerve” explores the history behind Roman poet Lucretius’s epic “On the Nature of Things” and how its rediscovery sparked the Renaissance.
The professor had previously been nominated for the National Book Award for his biography “Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare,” but this is his first win.
An emotional Greenblatt told the press he was “fighting back tears.”
"My book is about the power of books to cross boundaries, to speak to you impossibly across space, time and distance. To have someone long dead seem to be in the room with you and speaking into your ear."
Greenblatt is currently the editor of The Norton Shakespeare and the author of many academic works. He is considered to be the founder of the literary theory ‘New Historicism’ and one of the world’s foremost scholars.
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A 7th grade parents wants the book removed from her child’s classroom
Mike D and Ad-Rock sign with Random House imprint
Heti was recently shortlisted as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world for her novel 'How Should a Person Be?'
The ‘How I Met Your Mother’ star is co-authoring a kid’s series with Kirsten Miller
Heti is being considered alongside President Obama, Malala Yousafzai, and Mohammed Morsi
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