Michael Hofmann shortlisted for the International Booker 2024

We are excited to share that Michael Hofmann has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2024 for his translation of Jenny Erpenbeck's novel KAIROS (Granta). Hofmann is a notable German-born poet, translator, and critic, and has been described by the Guardian as "arguably the world's most influential translator of German into English". His collection of essays, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? was published by Faber & Faber in February 2015. He has made selections of the poetry of Robert Lowell and John Berryman, and, with James Lasdun, co-edited the influential anthology AFTER OVID. He has translated many German authors, including Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth and Hans Fallada.