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

  • What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

    Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann, Michael Hofmann

    E Book, 2011

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

    Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann

    Hardback, 2023

    Jenny Erpenbeck’s much anticipated new novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR collapses and an old world evaporates
  • Kairos

    Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann

    E Book

    Jenny Erpenbeck’s much anticipated new novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR collapses and an old world evaporates
  • Kairos

    Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2024

    Now in paperback, Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos is a dramatic love story that unfolds as the GDR implodes“an intimate account of obsessive, transgressive passion” (Claire Messud, Harper’s)
  • The Living Statue: A Legend

    Günter Grass, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2025

    A newly discovered and translated jewel of a story from the Nobel laureate
  • The Living Statue: A Legend

    Günter Grass, Michael Hofmann

    E Book

    A newly discovered and translated jewel of a story from the Nobel laureate