Eva Hoffman (born Ewa Wydra on 1 July 1945)[1] is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning writer and academic.
Her parents, Boris and Maria Wydra, survived the Holocaust by hiding in a forest bunker and then by being hidden by Polish and Ukrainian neighbours.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is currently a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies at University College, London.
In her 1989 memoir, Lost in Translation, Hoffman tells the story of her experience immigrating to America from a post-World War II Poland.
[1] Fjellestad writes on Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language: [It] is, to the best of my knowledge, the first "postmodern" autobiography written in English by an emigre from a European Communist country."