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

  • 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.