Michael Hofmann (Author)

Michael Hofmann (born 1957 in Freiburg ) is an English poet, translator and literary scholar.

Life

The son of the writer Gert Hofmann has lived in England since 1961 and attended Winchester College there . After studying English and comparative literature at Oxford (1979) and a Masters in Cambridge (1984), he held various teaching positions at universities, including the University of Michigan . He was appointed Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Florida in 1993. In 2005 he was elected as an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2008 Hofmann was invited to Queensland , Australia as a poet-in-residence . Since 2010 he has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Hofmann was married to the writer Lavinia Greenlaw . He has also translated some of his father's works into English.

The translation of Hans Fallada , Every Man Dies Alone , had 2010 such a great sales success in the US and in the UK that in Germany a new critical edition of Every Man Dies Alone done.

Awards

• Cholmondeley Award 1984 for his volume of poetry Night in the Iron Hotel
• Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 1988, for his book of poems Acrimony
• Schlegel-Tieck Prize of the German Embassy in London in 1988, for the translation of Patrick Süskind's The Double-Bass ( The Double Bass ) and again in 1993 for the translation of Wolfgang Koeppen's Death in Rome ( Der Tod in Rom )
• Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator Prize 2000 for the translation of Joseph Roth's novella Rebellion ( Die Rebellion ) combined with a one-year scholarship at the Berlin Literary Colloquium
• DeKa Bank Prize of the Literaturhaus, Frankfurt 2004
• Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2004, for the translation of Ernst Jünger 's Storm of Steel ( In Stahlgewittern )
• Spycher: Leuk Literature Prize 2002 together with Lavinia Greenlaw

Works

• Night in the Iron Hotel. Poems. 1983.
• Acrimony. Poems. 1986.
• KS in Lakeland. Poems. 1990.
• Corona, corona. Poems. 1993.
• Approximately nowhere. Poems. 1999.
• Fine adjustments, poems - in two languages. Transfer Marcel Beyer . DuMont, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7701-4758-8 .

Translations

• Günter Eich : Angina days. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 2010. (selected poems)
• Peter Stephan Jungk : The inheritance. Pushkin Press, London 2010 ( The Inheritance ).
• Irmgard Keun : Child of all nations. Penguin Books, London 2009 ( child of all countries ).
• Hans Fallada : Every Man Dies Alone. Melville House, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-933633-63-3 ( Everyone dies for himself ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Hofmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Vita Michael Hofmann on lyrikwelt
• Short biography of the British Council (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lavinia Greenlaw see English Wikipedia : Lavinia Greenlaw , list of writings at worldcat