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.

Books by Michael Hofmann

  • 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

    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)
  • 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
  • The Hothouse

    Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann, Pankaj Mishra

    Paperback, 2026

    On the anniversary of Wolfgang Koeppen’s 120th year, the two-remaining works in his postwar trilogy in Michael Hofmann’s spectacular translation

  • The Hothouse

    Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann, Pankaj Mishra

    E Book

    On the anniversary of Wolfgang Koeppen’s 120th year, the two-remaining works in his postwar trilogy in Michael Hofmann’s spectacular translation

  • Death in Rome

    Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann, Joshua Cohen

    Paperback, 2026

    “In a brilliant translation of this great German novel, Michael Hofmann has illuminated a dark corner of recent European history. A forgotten masterpiece.” — Evening Standard

  • Death in Rome

    Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann, Joshua Cohen

    E Book

    “In a brilliant translation of this great German novel, Michael Hofmann has illuminated a dark corner of recent European history. A forgotten masterpiece.” — Evening Standard