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Biography. Hofmann was born in Freiburg into a family with a literary tradition. His father was the German novelist Gert Hofmann.His maternal grandfather edited the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie. Hofmann's family first moved to Bristol in 1961, and later to Edinburgh.He was educated at Winchester College, and then studied English Literature and Classics at Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating ...
Michael Hofmann. Poet, translator, and essayist Michael Hofmann was born in Freiburg, Germany, and moved to the UK at age four. When his family returned to Germany, Hofmann stayed behind, first at boarding schools and later Magdalene College, Cambridge University, where he earned his BA and MA.
Biography. Poet and translator Michael Hofmann was born in Freiburg, West Germany in 1957. The son of the German novelist Gert Hofmann, his translation of his father's novel The Film Explainer won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 1995. He grew up in England and attended schools in Edinburgh and Winchester.
21 de may. de 2024 · LONDON (AP) — German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Kairos,” the story of a tangled love affair during the final years of East Germany’s existence.. Erpenbeck said she hoped the book would help readers learn there was more to life in the now-vanished Communist country than depicted in “The Lives of ...
The vagaries of the market, and of personal ambition and dedication. I expect the best ones are accidents of migration and biography, who’ve come through the trauma of bilingualism. It’s always better not to have learned a language, the way the Greeks say better to have not been born.
4 de dic. de 2014 · Michael Hofmann’s first collection of poems, Nights in the Iron Hotel, came in 1984, and in the ensuing thirty years he has translated more than sixty novels from the German and published five more poetry collections, along the way collecting numerous prizes for his work.He is the editor of an anthology, Twentieth-Century German Poetry, and in 2002 published a collection of critical essays ...
Michael Hofmann could and can unleash the most devastating criticism if he takes against a writer – his dismissal of Douglas Dunn’s Elegies comes to mind, or more recently of Craig Raine’s ‘martian’ device; there was a serious hatchet job on a Hungarian novelist which lingers in the memory, and more recently and conspicuously still, his dismantling of the life and work (and even of ...
