Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman (born Ewa Wydra July 1, 1945 in Krakow ) is an American writer.

Life

Ewa Wydra's parents Boris and Maria Wydra are Polish survivors of the Holocaust . The family emigrated to Vancouver , Canada in 1958 . Wydra studied piano and literature on a scholarship at Rice University in Houston and at the Yale School of Music . She was married to fellow student Barry Hoffman from 1971 to 1976. Eva Hoffman received her PhD from Harvard University in 1975 .

Hoffman became an editor at the New York Times in 1979 and was editor-in-chief for the New York Times Book Review from 1987 to 1990 .

Hoffman has taught literature and creative writing at various colleges, including Columbia University , the University of Minnesota , Tufts University , Hunter College and the University of California, Berkeley .

Hoffman writes autobiographical texts from the perspective of the second generation after the Holocaust, as well as texts on the history of the Jews in Eastern Europe. She received the Jean Stein Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1990, a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction in 1992, and a Whiting Award . In 2008 she was made an honorary doctorate from the University of Warwick . She received a Prix ​​Italia for an Italian radio show . From 2015 to 2018 she was visiting professor at University College London .

Works (selection)

• Lost in Translation. Life in a New Language . 1989
  • Lost in translation. Arrive in a foreign country . Translation: Gesine Strempel , Helmut Frielinghaus . Frankfurt am Main: New Criticism Publishing House, 1993 ISBN 978-3-8015-0251-5
• Exit into history. A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe . 1993
• Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997 ISBN 0-395-82295-5
  • In the shtetl. The world of the Polish Jews . Translation of Sylvia List . Vienna: Zsolnay, 2000 ISBN 978-3-552-04959-8
• The Secret: A Novel . 2002
  • The copied woman. Novel . Translation by Renate Orth-Guttmann . Vienna: Zsolnay, 2004 ISBN 978-3-552-05293-2
• After Search Knowledge. Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust . New York: PublicAffairs, 2004
• Illuminations. A novel . 2008, also under the title Appassionata
• Time: Big Ideas, Small Books , London: Profile Books, 2009
• How to Be Bored , 2016

literature

• Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm : Amerykanie z wyboru i inni . Warsaw: Dom Książki, 1998, p. 298ff. ISBN 83-900358-7-1
• Marie A. Laufer: Literatures in English. Identity processes in the transcultural society; Maxine Hong Kingston - "The woman warrior", Eva Hoffman - "Lost in translation", Monica Ali - "Brick Lane" . VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-639-04774-5 .
• Irina V Rodimtseva: In Search of a Dream America. Place in the Life Writing of Eastern European Immigrants . Peter Lang: Bern, 2017

Web links

• Literature by and about Eva Hoffman in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Eva Hoffman in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Eva Hoffman at perlentaucher.de
• Harry Kreisler: Conversation with Eva Hoffman , October 5, 2000, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
• Eva Hoffman, Writer & Academic , Short Biography, at UCLA, September 26, 2000
• Eva Hoffman , at Whiting Foundation
• Andrew Brown : Hoffman's tale , Review, The Guardian, April 28, 2001
• Eva Hoffman , at Hanser-Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eva Hoffman , at University College London