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Michael Hofmann

Michael Hofmann (2023)

Michael Hofmann was born in Germany in 1957, and grew up in England, Scotland and the US. Since 1983, he has published five books of poems, Nights in the Iron Hotel, Acrimony, Corona, Corona, Approximately Nowhere and One Lark, One Horse, and three books of prose, Behind the Lines, Where Have You Been? and Messing About in Boats. He has edited the Faber Book of 20th Century German Poems, and made personal selections from the writings of Malcolm Lowry, and the poetry of Robert Lowell, John Berryman and W.S. Graham. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books and has translated the better part of 100 titles from German, including work by Fallada, Doblin, Kafka, Koeppen and Roth.

 


Friday Seminar with Michael Hofmann - Date: 20/10/2023

Date: 20/10/2023
Time: 2:00PM - 3:00PM
Location: The McMordie Room, Music Building
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Friday Seminar with Michael Hofmann - Date: 27/10/2023

Date: 27/10/2023
Time: 2:00PM - 3:00PM
Location: The McMordie Room, Music Building
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

In Conversation with International Visiting Poetry Fellow Michael Hofmann - Date: 2/11/2023

Date: 2/11/2023
Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Location: The Harty Room, Music Building
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Visiting International Poetry Fellows
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