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 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