Have you been waiting for a Lithuanian edition of The Republic of Pirates? Of course you have. We all have. And now the waiting is over.
Leidykla Briedis, the Vilnius publishing house, released the book last month under the title Piratų Respublika. Neįtikėtina Karibų piratų istorija. This is the ninth foreign edition of the book to date, the others being for the United Kingdom, Spain, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Brazil, Taiwan, and China. Japanese is coming later this month and Romanian later this year.
As a longtime Eastern Europe-based foreign correspondent, I am genuinely excited the book is out in Lithuania as well as so many of its neighbors. Would be fun to go on tour there, as I expect Vilnius has changed a lot since I last visited in 1994!
[Update, 8/10/2021: The book is now also available in Japanese.]
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.