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. His translation of Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck was awarded the International Booker Prize in 2024.

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. His translation of Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck was awarded the International Booker Prize in 2024.

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