Michael Hofmann

Michael Hofmann

In 1983, Hofmann started working as a freelance writer, translator, and literary critic.^[6] He has since gone on to hold visiting professorships at the

In 2008, Hofmann was Poet-in-Residence in the state of Queensland in Australia.[8]

Hofmann has two sons, Max (1991) and Jakob (1993).^{[citation needed]} He splits his time between Hamburg and Gainesville, Florida.^{[citation needed]}

Honours

Hofmann received the Cholmondeley Award in 1984 for Nights in the Iron Hotel^[9] and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1988 for Acrimony.^[10] The same year, he also received the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Patrick Süskind's Der Kontrabaß (The Double Bass).^[11] In 1993 he received the Schlegel-Tieck Prize again for his translation of Wolfgang Koeppen's Death in Rome.^[11]

Hofmann was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 1995 for the translation of his father's novel The Film Explainer,^[2] and nominated again in 2003 for his translation of Peter Stephan Jungk's The Snowflake Constant.^[12] In 1997 he received the Arts Council Writer's Award for his collection of poems Approximately Nowhere,^[2] and the following year he received the International Dublin Literary Award for his translation of Herta Müller's novel The Land of Green Plums.^[2]

In 1999, Hofmann was awarded the

Hoffman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023.^[17]

Critical writing

Maria Tumarkin describes Hofmann's review writing as "masterful" and "convention-eviscerating".^[18] Philip Oltermann remarks on the "savagery" with which Hofmann "can wield a hatchet", stating (with reference to Hofmann's antipathy towards Stefan Zweig) that: "Like a Soho drunk stumbling into the National Portrait Gallery in search of a good scrap, Hofmann has battered posthumous reputations with the same glee as those of the living."^[1]

Selected bibliography

Author

• Nights in the Iron Hotel. London:
  ISBN 978-0-571-13116-7
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• Acrimony. London: Faber and Faber. 1986.
  ISBN 978-0-571-14528-7
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• Corona, Corona. London: Faber and Faber. 1993.
  ISBN 978-0-571-17052-4
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• Approximately Nowhere: poems. London: Faber and Faber. 1999.
  ISBN 978-0-571-19524-4
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• Behind the Lines: Pieces on Writing and Pictures. London: Faber and Faber. 2002.
  ISBN 978-0-571-19523-7
  .
• Where Have You Been?: Selected Essays. New York:
  ISBN 978-0-374-25996-9
  .
• One Lark, One Horse. London: Faber and Faber. 2018.
  ISBN 978-0-571-342297
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• Messing About in Boats. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021.

Translator

• ISBN 978-0-7011-2993-4
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• ISBN 978-0-571-15272-8
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• Wenders, Wim (1992). The Logic of Images: Essays and Conversations. Translated by Michael Hofmann. London: Faber and Faber.
  ISBN 978-0-571-16517-9
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• ISBN 978-1-86207-589-4
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• ISBN 978-1-86207-087-5
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• ISBN 978-0-8101-1293-3
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• ISBN 978-0-7011-2993-4
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• Süskind, Patrick (13 October 2023).
  ISBN 978-0-99-304672-8
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• ISBN 978-0-140-18621-5
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• ISBN 978-1-86207-260-2
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• Roth, Joseph (1999). Rebellion. Translated by Michael Hofmann. London:
  ISBN 978-0-312-26383-6
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• Koeppen, Wolfgang (2002). The Hothouse. Translated by Michael Hofmann. London: Granta.
  ISBN 978-1862075092
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• ISBN 978-0-747-54752-5
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• ISBN 978-0-571-20182-2
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• Koeppen, Wolfgang (2003. A Sad Affair. Norton.
• Roth, Joseph (2003). Radetzky March. Translated by Michael Hofmann. London: Granta.
  ISBN 978-1-86207-605-1
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• Jungk, Peter Stephan (2004). The Perfect American. Translated by Michael Hofmann. New York, NY: Handsel Books.
  ISBN 978-1-59051-115-2
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• ISBN 978-0-14-243790-2
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• Hofmann, Gert (2004). Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl. Translated by Michael Hofmann. New York, NY:
  ISBN 978-0-8112-1568-8
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• ISBN 978-1-862-07652-5
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• ISBN 978-0-374-53013-6
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• ISBN 978-1-400-04066-7
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• Stamm, Peter (2006). Unformed Landscape. Translated by Michael Hofmann. New York, NY: Handsel Books.
  ISBN 978-1-590-51226-5
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• ISBN 978-0-8052-1207-5
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• Stamm, Peter (2008). In Strange Gardens and other stories. Translated by Michael Hofmann. New York, NY: Other Press.
  ISBN 978-1-590-51169-5
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• Kafka, Franz (2007). Metamorphosis and other stories. Translated by Michael Hofmann. New York, NY: Penguin Classics.
  ISBN 978-0-14-310524-4
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• ISBN 978-0-393-06538-1
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• ISBN 978-0-713-99907-5
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• Stamm, Peter (2008). On a Day Like This. Translated by Michael Hofmann. New York, NY: Other Press.
  ISBN 978-1-590-51279-1
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• ISBN 978-1-933633-63-3
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• Canetti, Elias (2010). Party in the Blitz. Translated by Michael Hofmann. New York, NY: New Directions.
• Roth, Joseph (2011). The Leviathan. Translated by Michael Hofmann. New York, NY: New Directions.
• Roth, Joseph (2012). Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters. Translated by Michael Hofmann. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
  ISBN 978-0-393-32379-5
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• ISBN 978-0-374-17537-5
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• Roth, Joseph (2013). The Emperor's Tomb. Translated by Michael Hofmann. New York, NY: New Directions.
• Roth, Joseph (2015). The Hotel Years. Translated by Michael Hofmann. New York, NY: New Directions.
• Kafka, Franz (2017). Investigations of a Dog & Other Creatures. Translated by Michael Hofmann. New York, NY: New Directions.
• Döblin, Alfred (2018). Berlin Alexanderplatz. Translated by Michael Hofmann. New York, NY: New York Review Books.
• Kleist, Heinrich von (2020). Michael Kohlhaas. Translated by Michael Hofmann. New York, NY: New Directions.
• Koeppen, Wolfgang (2020). Pigeons on the Grass. Translated by Michael Hofmann. New York, NY: New Directions.
• Kafka, Franz (2020). The Lost Writings. Translated by Michael Hofmann. New York, NY: New Directions.
• ISBN 978-1-783-78612-1
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