Michael Hofmann

The award-winning translator Michael Hofmann has also translated works by Jenny Erpenbeck, Gert Hofmann, Franz Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist, and Joseph Roth for New Directions.

Michael Hofmann

The award-winning translator Michael Hofmann has also translated works by Jenny Erpenbeck, Gert Hofmann, Franz Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist, and Joseph Roth for New Directions.

Awards

Winner — New York Times Notable Selection, 2001

Books by Michael Hofmann

  • The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth

    Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2003

    The Collected Stories, in its variety and force, is the essential introduction to the fiction of Joseph Roth.
  • Report From a Parisian Paradise: Essays from France, 1925-1939

    Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2005

    The wisdom of a lost generation distilled in a bottle of Calvados.
  • The Hotel Years

    Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2015

    The first overview of all Joseph Roth’s journalism: traveling across a Europe in crisis, he declares,“I am a hotel citizen, a hotel patriot.”
  • Party in the Blitz

    Elias Canetti, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2010

    Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti’s sensational memoir: a frank, acerbic, and cranky way his years of British exile.
  • Pigeons on the Grass

    Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2020

    Wolfgang Koeppen’s postwar masterpiece in a luminous new translation by the poet Michael Hofmann
  • The Lost Writings

    Franz Kafka, Reiner Stach, Michael Hofmann

    Hardback, 2020

    A windfall for every reader: a trove of marvelous impossible-to-find Kafka stories in a masterful new translation by Michael Hofmann
  • Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters

    Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann, Michael Hofmann

    E Book, 2012

    The monumentality of this biographical work further establishes Joseph Roth—with Kafka, Mann, and Musil—in the twentieth-century literary canon.
  • The Hotel Years

    Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann

    E Book, 2015

    The first overview of all Joseph Roth’s journalism: traveling across a Europe in crisis, he declares,“I am a hotel citizen, a hotel patriot.”
  • Pigeons on the Grass

    Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann

    E Book, 2020

    Wolfgang Koeppen’s postwar masterpiece in a luminous new translation by the poet Michael Hofmann
  • The Wandering Jews

    Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann

    E Book, 2014

    The classic portrait of a vanished people.