Translator Michael Hofmann presents The Hothouse and Death in Rome

Thu May 07 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-04:00

Community Bookstore | Brooklyn

Community Bookstore
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Translator Michael Hofmann presents The Hothouse and Death in Rome
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Join Michael Hofmann for a discussion of two of his translations of Wolfgang Koeppen. Andrew Martin will join him in conversation.
About this Event

Please note that an RSVP does not guarantee you a seat. We can accommodate approximately 50 seated and 80 standing. If you require a seat, please plan to arrive early.

About the participants:

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.

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Community Bookstore, 143 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, United States

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