Peter Pomerantsev is a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where he studies contemporary propaganda and how to defeat it. His first book,&nbsp;<em>Nothing is True and Everything is Possible,</em>&nbsp;won the 2016 RSL Ondaatje Prize and was nominated for the&nbsp;<em>Guardian</em>&nbsp;First Book Award, Pushkin Prize, Baillie Gifford Prize and Gordon Burn Prize. His second,&nbsp;<em>This is Not Propaganda,</em>&nbsp;won the 2020 Gordon Burn Prize. His essay on authoritarian propaganda, 'Memory in the Age of Impunity', won the 2022 European Press Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. On today's show he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book <em>How To Win An Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler</em>.<br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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Neil Denny

Little Atoms 891 - Peter Pomerantsev's How To Win An Information War

APR 8, 202428 MIN
Little Atoms

Little Atoms 891 - Peter Pomerantsev's How To Win An Information War

APR 8, 202428 MIN

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Peter Pomerantsev is a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where he studies contemporary propaganda and how to defeat it. His first book,&nbsp;<em>Nothing is True and Everything is Possible,</em>&nbsp;won the 2016 RSL Ondaatje Prize and was nominated for the&nbsp;<em>Guardian</em>&nbsp;First Book Award, Pushkin Prize, Baillie Gifford Prize and Gordon Burn Prize. His second,&nbsp;<em>This is Not Propaganda,</em>&nbsp;won the 2020 Gordon Burn Prize. His essay on authoritarian propaganda, 'Memory in the Age of Impunity', won the 2022 European Press Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. On today's show he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book <em>How To Win An Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler</em>.<br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>