Michael
Hofmann
Michael Hofmann was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1957, and moved to England in 1961. He went to schools in Bristol, Edinburgh and Winchester, and studied at Cambridge for seven years. Since 1983, he has been a freelance writer and reviewer. In 1993, he was offered a teaching post at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He lives in Hamburg and London.He is the author of four books of poems and a Selected Poems (Faber and Faber, 2008), a book of criticism called Behind the Lines (Faber and Faber, 2001), and the translator of many German authors, including Brecht, Kafka, Jünger and Roth. In 1998, his translation of Herta Müller’s The Land of Green Plums won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Among his recent translations are Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada (Penguin) and Angina Days (Princeton U.P.), the selected poems of Günter Eich.
Michael Hofmann was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1957, and moved to England in 1961. He went to schools in Bristol, Edinburgh and Winchester, and studied at Cambridge for seven years. Since 1983, he has been a freelance writer and reviewer. In 1993, he was offered a teaching post at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He lives in Hamburg and London.He is the author of four books of poems and a Selected Poems (Faber and Faber, 2008), a book of criticism called Behind the Lines (Faber and Faber, 2001), and the translator of many German authors, including Brecht, Kafka, Jünger and Roth. In 1998, his translation of Herta Müller’s The Land of Green Plums won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Among his recent translations are Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada (Penguin) and Angina Days (Princeton U.P.), the selected poems of Günter Eich.
