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




