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.

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.

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