Michael Hofmann
Professor
Michael Hofmann has published
five books of poems: Nights
in the Iron Hotel (1983), Acrimony (1986), K.S.
in Lakeland: New and Selected Poems (1990), Corona, Corona (1993),
and Approximately
Nowhere (1999). His poetry has also appeared in Penguin
Modern Poets 13 (1998).
With James Lasdun, he edited the anthology After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (1994).
A selection of his criticism, Behind
the Lines: Pieces on Writing and Pictures, was published in
2002. He has edited and introduced short selections of the poems of
Robert Lowell (2001) and John Berryman (2003),
and is presently editing the Faber Book of 20th Century German
Poetry and Rilke in English for Penguin.
Professor Hofmann has translated more than thirty books from the German, mainly novels, including works by Ernst Junger, Franz Kafka, Wolfgang Koeppen, Joseph Roth, and Wim Wenders.
For his poetry he has won a Cholmondeley Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and an English Arts Council grant; for his translations 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.
He received his BA (1979) and MA (1984) from Cambridge University. He was a visitor to UF in 1990, and joined the faculty in 1994. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan. Professor Hofmann teaches poetry workshops and seminars on European poetry and translation.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4211D
- voice: (352) 392-6650, ext. 235
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <mhofmann@english.ufl.edu>