Michael Hofmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and came to England in 1961. He has published four volumes of poems and won a Cholmondeley Award adn the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Poetry. His translations have won many awards, including the Independent's Foreign Fiction Award, teh IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the P.E.N./Book of the Month Club Translation Prize. His reviews and criticism are gathered in Behind the Lines (2001).

Michael Hofmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and came to England in 1961. He has published four volumes of poems and won a Cholmondeley Award adn the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Poetry. His translations have won many awards, including the Independent's Foreign Fiction Award, teh IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the P.E.N./Book of the Month Club Translation Prize. His reviews and criticism are gathered in Behind the Lines (2001).

Michael Hofmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and came to England in 1961. He has published four volumes of poems and won a Cholmondeley Award adn the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Poetry. His translations have won many awards, including the Independent's Foreign Fiction Award, teh IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the P.E.N./Book of the Month Club Translation Prize. His reviews and criticism are gathered in Behind the Lines (2001).