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Michael Hofmann is a German-born British poet, translator, and critic. He was born on 25 August 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and moved to England with his family in 1961. He studied at the University of East Anglia and the University of Essex, and has taught at the University of East Anglia, the University of Essex, and the University of Florida.
Hofmann is the author of several collections of poetry, including Acrimony (1992), Behind the Lines (1995), and Night Out (2000). He has also translated works by authors such as Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, and W.G. Sebald. His translations of Kafka's The Trial and The Castle were both shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.
Hofmann has received numerous awards for his work, including the Cholmondeley Award, the Forward Prize, and the E.M. Forster Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
As of 2021, Michael Hofmann's net worth is estimated to be approximately $1 million.
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In 2008, Hofmann was Poet-in-Residence in the state of Queensland in Australia.
In 1999 Hofmann was awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for his translation of Joseph Roth's The String of Pearls. In 2000 Hofmann was selected as the recipient of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his translation of Joseph Roth's novel Rebellion (Die Rebellion). In 2003 he received another Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of his father's Luck, and in 2004 he was awarded the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for his translation of Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel. In 2005 Hofmann received his fourth Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Gerd Ledig's The Stalin Organ. Hofmann served as a judge for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002, and in 2006 Hofmann made the Griffin's international shortlist for his translation of Durs Grünbein's Ashes for Breakfast.
Hofmann was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 1995 for the translation of his father's novel The Film Explainer, and Michael was nominated again in 2003 for his translation of Peter Stephan Jungk's The Snowflake Constant. In 1997 he received the Arts Council Writer's Award for his collection of poems Approximately Nowhere, and the following year he received the International Dublin Literary Award for his translation of Herta Müller's novel The Land of Green Plums.
Michael Hofmann was born in Freiburg, West Germany into a family with a literary tradition. His father was the German novelist Gert Hofmann (died 1993). 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.
He has two sons, Max (1991) and Jakob (1993). He splits his time between Hamburg and Gainesville, Florida.
Hofmann received the Cholmondeley Award in 1984 for Nights in the Iron Hotel and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1988 for Acrimony. The same year, he also received the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Patrick Süskind's Der Kontrabaß (The Double Bass). In 1993 he received the Schlegel-Tieck Prize again for his translation of Wolfgang Koeppen's Death in Rome.
In 1979 he received a BA and in 1984 an MA from the University of Cambridge. In 1983 he started working as a freelance writer, translator, and literary critic. Hofmann has held visiting professorships at the University of Michigan, Rutgers University, the New School University, Barnard College, and Columbia University. He was first a visitor to University of Florida in 1990, joined the faculty in 1994, and became full time in 2009. He has been teaching poetry and translation workshops.
Michael Hofmann (born 25 August 1957 in Freiburg, West Germany) is a German-born poet who writes in English and a translator of texts from German.
