Michael Hofmann
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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 in 2025
Storm of Steel
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Storm of Steel is the memoir of German officer Ernst Jünger's experiences on the Western Front during the First World War from December 1914 to August 1918. The book is a graphic account of trench war
Michael Hofmann
…Prize for his translation of his father's Luck, and in 2004 he was awarded the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for his translation of Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel. In 2005 Hofmann runner-up for the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Gert Ledig's The Stalin Organ. Hofmann served as a judge for the Griffin…
The cover of the 1929 Chatto & Windus edition. Click to access a PDF of the book.
Jünger in 1918