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The poet Michael Hofmann’s awards for translation include the PEN Translation Prize, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Dublin Literary Award, the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Schlegel-Tieck Prize, and most recently, the Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation. More about this author >
Kairos―an unforgettably compelling masterpiece―tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans. More about this book >
The poet Michael Hofmann’s awards for translation include the PEN Translation Prize, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Dublin Literary Award, the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Schlegel-Tieck Prize, and most recently, the Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation.
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