Michael Hofmann was born on 25 August 1957 and is a German-born poet, translator, and critic.
12 Facts About Michael Hofmann
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Michael Hofmann was educated at Winchester College, and then studied English Literature and Classics at Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1979.
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In 1983, Michael Hofmann started working as a freelance writer, translator, and literary critic.
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Michael Hofmann has since gone on to hold visiting professorships at the University of Michigan, Rutgers University, the New School University, Barnard College, and Columbia University.
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Michael Hofmann was first a visitor to the University of Florida in 1990, joined the faculty in 1994, and became full-time in 2009.
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In 2008, Michael Hofmann was Poet-in-Residence in the state of Queensland in Australia.
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Michael Hofmann received the Cholmondeley Award in 1984 for Nights in the Iron Hotel and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1988 for Acrimony.
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Michael Hofmann was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 1995 for the translation of his father's novel The Film Explainer, and nominated again in 2003 for his translation of Peter Stephan Jungk's The Snowflake Constant.
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In 2000, Michael Hofmann was selected as the recipient of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his translation of Joseph Roth's novel Rebellion.
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In 2005 Michael Hofmann received his fourth Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Gerd Ledig's The Stalin Organ.
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Michael Hofmann served as a judge for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002, and in 2006 Michael Hofmann made the Griffin's international shortlist for his translation of Durs Grunbein's Ashes for Breakfast.
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Maria Tumarkin describes Michael Hofmann's review writing as "masterful" and "convention-eviscerating".