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

  • Michael Kohlhaas

    Heinrich von Kleist, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2020

    An extraordinary masterpiece of German literature, now in a gripping new English translation
  • Michael Kohlhaas

    Heinrich von Kleist, Michael Hofmann

    E Book, 2020

    An extraordinary masterpiece of German literature, now in a gripping new English translation
  • The Wandering Jews

    Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2001

    The classic portrait of a vanished people.
  • The Seventh Well: A Novel

    Fred Wander, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2008

    "Shockingly brutal, profoundly transcendent." --Seattle Times
  • What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

    Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2004

    "[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers."—Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book Review
  • A Sad Affair: A Novel

    Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann

    Hardback, 2003

    A romantic roman à clef that tells the story of Sibylle, one of the greatest literary femmes fatales since Salomé.
  • Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters

    Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann, Michael Hofmann

    Hardback, 2012

    The monumentality of this biographical work further establishes Joseph Roth—with Kafka, Mann, and Musil—in the twentieth-century literary canon.
  • The Seventh Well: A Novel

    Fred Wander, Michael Hofmann

    Hardback, 2007

    A novel of total absorption, a heroic achievement, and one—despite the modesty of its author—destined for literary transcendence.
  • Death in Rome

    Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2001

    A prophetic novel that ranks with The Tin Drum and W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants as one of the essential works of contemporary European fiction.
  • The Hothouse: A Novel

    Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2002

    "A recovered masterpiece....Remarkable as a sidelong, searing appraisal of the legacy of the Nazi years."—Publishers Weekly, starred review