| | Koeppen, Wolfgang
| | Wolfgang Koeppen was born in 1906 and died ninety years later in Munich. A journalist for left-wing papers in Weimar Berlin, he spent the early Nazi period in the Netherlands, returning in the war years to work for the film company that produced Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis'. He published five novels, two in the 1930s and three in the 1950s. Michael Hofmann is a poet, and was awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-month Club Prize for translation. He has translated Joseph Roth's works for Granta. |
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9781862075894, Death in Rome
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