S4E3 - Crafting Translations: Literary Critic, Poet & Translator Michael Hofmann

This is the 100th Episode on Harshaneeyam's Translator Series.

Michael Hofmann is a German-born poet, translator, and critic. The Guardian has described him as "arguably the world's most influential translator of German into English"

Hofmann was born in Freiburg into a family with a literary tradition. His father was the German novelist Gert Hofmann. Hofmann's family first moved to Bristol in 1961, and later to Edinburgh. He was educated at Winchester College, and then studied English Literatureat Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1979. For the next four years, he pursued postgraduate...