Autor: Matthew Spencer

Matthew SpencerMatthew Spencer is currently working towards a master”s degree in Editorial Studies at Boston University”s Editorial Institute. He earned his bachelor”s degree in literature from Boston University in 2002.Michael HofmannMichael Hofmann has translated Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Roth, Patrick S, Herta Mueller, and Franz Kafka. He won the Translators” Association”s Schlegel-Tieck Prize twice in 1988 for his adaptation of The Double Bass by Patrick S (1987), and in 1993 for his rendering of Wolfgang Koeppen”s Death in Rome (1992). In 1999 he won the PEN/Book of the Month Club Translation Prize for The String of Pearls. His translation of his father”s novel The Film Explainer, by Gert Hofmann, won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 1995. He has written and translated more than 35 books, winning eight awards for his translations and his poetry.