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Michael Punke [is] the deputy United States Trade Representative and the United States ambassador to the [url=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/world_trade_organization/index.html?inline=nyt-org]World Trade Organization[/url]. In addition to being an international trade policy wonk, Mr. Punke is the author of “The Revenant,” a 2002 novel about a 19th-century American fur trapper’s epic struggle for survival in the wilderness, and the inspiration for [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/movies/about-that-bear-alejandro-g-inarritu-discusses-making-the-revenant.html]Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s film[/url]. The movie is up for 12 Oscars, including best picture, and has catapulted the novel onto the best-seller lists.