Max Kade Center - A Conversation with Michael Hofmann
Hofmann is one of the world’s most influential translators from German, having translated works by Hans Fallada, Franz Kafka, Ernst Jünger, Joseph Roth, and Wim Wenders (among many others).
Over the course of his long and distinguished career, he has published several original collections of poetry and has translated more than 70 books from German. Hofmann also a regularly publishes reviews and essays in the London Review of Books and Poetry magazine. His essays have been collected in two volumes, Behind the Lines: Pieces on Writing and Pictures (2002) and Where Have You Been? (2014). He currently teaches at the University of Florida.
Light refreshments will be served.