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Release Date: 04/12/2026
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The first English translation of Café Panique by Roland Topor contains fifty-four tales and illustrations by the author.

Translated by Andrew Hodgson with an afterword by editor Luke Cohen.

1st edition (2026) softcover, 218 pages.

ROLAND TOPOR was a French writer and visual artist best known as the author of The Tenant (1964), which was adapted into the film of the same name by Roman Polanski (1976) and as animator of the science-fiction film Fantastic Planet (French: La Planète Sauvage, 1973). Co-founder of the Panic Movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Fernando Arrabal in 1962, Roland Topor was a prolific writer and multimedia artist whose work frequently appeared in newspapers, magazines, art exhibitions and on French television. He was born in Paris, 1938 and died in 1997.

ANDREW HODGSON is a British writer and researcher based in Paris, France. He is translator into English of Roland Topor’s Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne (2018), for which he received the Burgess Prize from the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni. His recent publications include the novel The Disgorging Head (2026) and the art-historical document studies Surrealism is Dead, Long Live Death! (2026), and New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness (2023). He currently teaches at Université Paris Cité.

LUKE COHEN is a writer, researcher and art historian based in New York. He has taught at Columbia University, New York.