Michael Hofmann FRSL (born 25 August 1957) is a German-born poet, translator, and critic.
[4][5] For the next four years, he pursued postgraduate study at the University of Regensburg and Trinity College, Cambridge.
[1] Hofmann received the Cholmondeley Award in 1984 for Nights in the Iron Hotel[9] and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1988 for Acrimony.
[10] The same year, he also received the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Patrick Süskind's Der Kontrabaß (The Double Bass).
[12] In 1997 he received the Arts Council Writer's Award for his collection of poems Approximately Nowhere,[2] and the following year he received the International Dublin Literary Award for his translation of Herta Müller's novel The Land of Green Plums.
[15] In 2005 Hofmann received his fourth Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Gerd Ledig's The Stalin Organ.