#Michael Hofmann

[nedison]

Everyone's smoking, clouds of smoke from pipes and cigarettes and cigars fog the whole huge hall. When it gets too smoky for the smoke, it looks for a way out which, thanks to its lightness, it can, through chinks and holes and ventilator shafts, all of which are under instruction to see it out. Once outside, though, there's only black night and freezing cold. Then the smoke regrets its impulsiveness, and opposes its nature, but the ventilators turn only one way, and there's nothing to be done about it. Too late. It's subject to physical laws. The smoke's not sure what it thinks about that, it tries to touch its brow and there's nothing there, it wants to think and it can't. The wind, the cold, the night, have it in their grip, and it is never seen again.

- Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz (trans. Michael Hofmann)

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It's spooky weather in spooky season, it's time for "Threat" by Gottfried Benn

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Leuchtende Prosa: Jenny Erpenbeck gewinnt International Booker Prize

Erstmals in der Geschichte des International Booker Prize gewinnt mit Jenny Erpenbeck eine deutschsprachige Autorin den renommierten Booker Prize für internationale Literatur.

Erstmals in der Geschichte des International Booker Prize gewinnt eine deutschsprachige Autorin den renommierten Booker Prize für internationale Literatur. Die Jury unter dem Vorsitz der kanadischen Schriftstellerin Eleanor Wachtel zeichnet die englische Übersetzung von Erpenbecks letztem Roman »Kairos« aus. Die Hälfte des mit 50.000 Euro dotierten Preises geht an den Übersetzer Michael…

[martyncrucefix]

Durs Grünbein Reading at The Goethe-Institute, London

Please Note: this blog and website are now captured and preserved at the UK Web Archive held at The British Museum. Many thanks to them. The highlight of last week was attending Durs Grünbein’s reading at The Goethe- Institute, where he was in discussion with his English translator, Karen Leeder. At the beginning of the evening, Grünbein joked that he’d not been in the UK for a few years and…

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O romance “Kairos” da autora alemã Jenny Erpenbeck, traduzido para o inglês por Michael Hofmann foi agraciado com o prestigiado International Booker Prize.

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Winding Up the Week #379

An end of week recap “If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whisker—you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you won’t be ‘caught,’ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat…

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Dark Season 1 (2017)

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Armin Hofmann: Farbe / Color, [niggli Verlag, Sulgen], 2012 [SPREAD, Tokyo]

Essays: Fabienne Ruppen, Christof Nüssli Texts: Philip Burton, April Greiman, Aki Nurosi and Moritz Zwimpfer Concept and Design: Matthias Hofmann, Isabelle Mauchle

Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by April Greiman, and designed by Michael Rotondi and April Greiman

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through the eyes of the father and the son

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8 May 2019 | Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall with Saxony Premier Michael Kretschmer and his wife Annett Hofmann, Leipzig Mayor Burkhard Jung and his wife Ayleena wave to people on top of the 'Rathaus' in Leipzig, Germany. Their Royal Highnesses are paying an official visit to Germany at the request of the British government. The four-day-trip from May 7-10 will include visits to Berlin, Leipzig and Munich. (c) Filip Singer - Pool/Getty Images

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My dreams told me more about you than you did.

Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos, tr. Michael Hofmann

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Booker Prize für Space Opera von Samantha Harvey

Die Britin Samantha Harvey ist für ihren Roman »Orbital« mit dem Booker Prize ausgezeichnet worden. Der Roman, der von sechs Raumfahrer:innen erzählt, erscheint in dieser Woche in der Übersetzung von Julia Wolf unter dem Titel »Umlaufbahnen« bei dtv.

Die Britin Samantha Harvey ist für ihren Roman »Orbital« mit dem wichtigsten Literaturpreis der englischsprachigen Welt ausgezeichnet worden. Damit hat erstmals seit 2019 wieder eine Frau den renommierten Booker Prize gewonnen. Der Roman, der von sechs Raumfahrer:innen erzählt, erscheint in dieser Woche in der Übersetzung von Julia Wolf unter dem Titel »Umlaufbahnen« auch in…

[martyncrucefix]

Translating Georg Heym’s ‘Berlin II’

an early Expressionist writer (of poems and short prose/novellas), his best-known poems combine a gothic, morbid imagination, often with extremes of Expressionistic distortion, with a counterbalancing devotion to regular forms.

Michael Hofmann’s Faber Book of Twentieth Century German Poems includes four pieces by Georg Heym – not bad for someone who died at the age of 24 (in 1912 – an accidental drowning in the frozen Havel River, probably while trying to save a friend). Heym is generally regarded as an early Expressionist writer (of poems and short prose/novellas), though his early poems are very much under the…

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books that will leave my face stuck in a pained expression and my heart bruised? books containing stories like a greek tragedy with or without the actual greek tragedy?

tin man, sarah winman

kairos, jenny erpenbeck tr. michael hofmann

the age of innocence, edith wharton

the radiant emperor duology, shelley parker-chan

our wives under the sea, julia armfield

minor detail, adania shibli

the silence of scheherezade, defne suman

she weeps each time you're born, quan barry

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the passenger (2023) / fady joudah / jeremy radin / dawn lundy martin / michael wasson / richie hofmann / noah ross / spencer reece / michael wasson / samantha fain / nisha patel / jeremy radin / noah ross / anthony oliveria / jeremy radin / anthony oliveria / catherynne m valente (source)

[hannahstanwald]

like sister, like brother