On May 6 at Rizzoli Bookstore, poet and translator Michael Hofmann will be in conversation with Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Joshua Cohen.

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.

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.

Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2022 for The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family. He lives in New York City.