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 translationMichael Kohlhaas
Heinrich von Kleist, Michael Hofmann
E Book, 2020
An extraordinary masterpiece of German literature, now in a gripping new English translationThe 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 TimesWhat 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 ReviewA 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