For other people named Michael Hofmann, see Michael Hofmann (disambiguation).
Michael Hofmann
FRSL
Born
(1957-08-25) 25 August 1957 (age 66) Freiburg, Germany
Occupation
Poet, translator
Genre
Criticism, poetry, translation
Michael HofmannFRSL (born 25 August 1957) is a German-born poet, translator, and critic. The Guardian has described him as "arguably the world's most influential translator of German into English".[1]
^Oltermann, Philip (9 April 2016). "Michael Hofmann: 'English is basically a trap. It's almost a language for spies'". theguardian.com. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
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Jenny Erpenbeck for her novel Kairos, translated from the German by MichaelHofmann. The judges' decision marked the first occasion the prize was won by...
International Booker Prize for her novel Kairos, translated from the German by MichaelHofmann. 22 May – The AfD bans Maximilian Krah, its leading candidate in the...
Bühler) Agnes, 1998 (translated by MichaelHofmann as Agnes, Other Press, 2016) Blitzeis, 1999 (translated by MichaelHofmann as "Black Ice" in the first section...
rendered everyday working-class speech. A 2018 English translation by MichaelHofmann, published by New York Review Books, was given a starred review from...
Dämmern der Welt) (German: Hanser, Munich, 2021; English, translated by MichaelHofmann: Bodley Head, London, 2022, ISBN 978-0593490266) Every Man for Himself...
illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé. It was translated into English by MichaelHofmann. After Süskind had written Perfume about a serial killer in 1985, and...
was made by MichaelHofmann in 2003 which won the 2004 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. In his introduction to his own edition, Hofmann is highly critical...
in the US under the title Every Man Dies Alone, in a translation by MichaelHofmann. Melville House licensed it to Penguin Books in the UK, who used the...
Fiction Prize. In September 2023, the English translation of Kairos by MichaelHofmann was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature...
Poet." The New York Times. 29 July 1973. p. BR15. Hofmann, Michael (September 11, 2003). "MichaelHofmann reviews 'Collected Poems' by Robert Lowell, edited...
It gained an international audience when the English translation by MichaelHofmann was published in 1996. In 1998 this translation won the International...
Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist (Archipelago Books, 2009) MichaelHofmann: Michael Kohlhaas (New Directions, 2020) Franz Kafka devoted one of only...
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