The Translator's Presence
Or: Does Michael Hofmann Make Everyone Sound Like Michael Hofmann?:
Thursday, Apr 10, 2008, 5pm,
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Michael Hofmann is the foremost translator from German into English. He has
translated more than thirty books from the German, mainly novels, including
works by Ernst Jünger, Franz Kafka, Wolfgang Koeppen, Joseph Roth, and Wim Wenders.
For his translations he has won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the
P.E.N./Book of the Month Club Translation Prize, and the Helen and Kurt
Wolff Translator's Prize.
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