Michael Hofmann is a German-born poet, translator, and critic. The Guardian has described him as "arguably the world's most influential translator of German into English".Wikipedia →
Translations
Blood Brothers
Blutsbrüder by Ernst Haffner
English · Other Press · 1932
Luck
Das Glück by Gert Hofmann
English · New Directions · 2004
Storm of Steel
In Stahlgewittern by Ernst Jünger
English · Penguin · 2004
Zurau Aphorisms
Die Zürauer Aphorismen by Franz Kafka
English · Harvill Secker · 2006
Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl
Die kleine Stechardin by Gert Hofmann
English · New Directions · 2007
Frost
Frost by Thomas Bernhard
English · Vintage · 2008
The Land of Green Plums
Herztier by Herta Müller
English · Picador · 2010
The Leviathan
Der Leviathan by Joseph Roth
English · New Directions · 2011
The Emperor's Tomb
Die Kapuzinergruft by Joseph Roth
English · New Directions · 2013
The Hotel Years
"Ich zeichne das Gesicht der Zeit." Essays – Reportagen – Feuilletons. by Joseph Roth
English · New Directions · 2015
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
English · NYRB · 2018
Amerika
Amerika by Franz Kafka
English · Penguin · 2019
Pigeons on the Grass
Tauben im Gras by Wolfgang Koeppen
English · New Directions · 2020
Death in Rome
Der Tod in Rom by Wolfgang Koeppen
English · New Directions · 2026
The Hothouse
Das Treibhaus by Wolfgang Koeppen
English · New Directions · 2026