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Michael Hofmann
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.
Biography.
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
) / "Alone in Berlin" (UK) (tr. Michael Hofmann, 2009)
- "A Small Circus" (tr. Michael Hofmann, 2012)
- "A Stranger in My Own Country: The 1944 Prison Diary" (tr. Allan Blunden, 2014)
- "Tales From the Underworld: Selected Shorter Fiction" (ed. and tr. Michael Hoffman, 2014)
- "Nightmare in Berlin" (tr. Allan Blunden, 2016)
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