Michael Hofmann

. Michael Hofmann (born 1957, Freiburg, West Germany) is a German-born poet who writes in English and a translator of texts from German. Michael Hofmann is the son of the German novelist Gert Hofmann. Hoffmann'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 at the University of Oxford. In 1979 he received a BA and in 1984 an MA from the Univers... more

. Michael Hofmann (born 1957, Freiburg, West Germany) is a German-born poet who writes in English and a translator of texts from German. Michael Hofmann is the son of the German novelist Gert Hofmann. Hoffmann'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 at the University of Oxford. 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 a visiting professorship at the University of Michigan and currently teaches poetry workshops at the University of Florida. He splits his time between London and Gainesville. In 2008, Hofmann is Poet-in-Residence in the state of Queensland in Australia. 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... less