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 ReviewKairos
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 evaporatesKairos
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 evaporatesKairos
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 laureateThe Living Statue: A Legend
Günter Grass, Michael Hofmann
E Book
A newly discovered and translated jewel of a story from the Nobel laureate