On May 7 at Community Bookstore, poet and translator Michael Hofmann will be in conversation with novelist Andrew Martin.

Join us to celebrate the release of the two remaining works in Wolfgang Koeppen's postwar trilogy, The Hothouse and Death in Rome, both translated by Michael Hoffman and with new introductions by Pankaj Mishra and Joshua Cohen respectively. This concludes a project started with the 2020 publication of Pigeons in the Grass, the first volume in the trilogy.

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The poet Michael Hofmann's awards for translation include the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Schlegel-Tieck Prize (four times), and most recently, the American Academy's Thornton Wilder Prize in Translation.

Andrew Martin is the author of the novel Early Work, a New York Times Notable book of 2018, the story collection Cool for America, which was long-listed for the 2020 Story Prize, and the recently published novel Down Time. His fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper's, The Atlantic, and The Yale Review, and he is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He lives and teaches in Brooklyn.