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Jewish Book Week 2004
Saturday 28 February to Sunday 7 March
Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, London WC1
Sunday 7 March 3pm
The Genius of Joseph Roth
Michael Hofmannn
Chair: Hephzibah Anderson
In association with the Times Literary Supplement
The first in a series on 20th Century Jewish Writers
Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was born to German-speaking Jewish parents in
Galicia. He was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and
doomed Central European culture that flourished in the dying days of
the Austro- Hungarian Empire.
Over the last five years, poet Michael Hofmann has dedicated himself to
translating Roth. In this session, he reads from and talks about his
passion for Roth’s work, and shines a new light on one of the greatest
writers of the 20th century.
Michael Hofmann was born in Freiburg, Germany in 1957 and grew up in
England. His poetry includes Corona Corona (1993) and Approximately
Nowhere (1999). His translations of Joseph Roth include The Radetzky
March (2002). He won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for Translation in 1988
and 1993.
Hephzibah Anderson is the debut fiction reviewer for the Observer and
Fiction Editor of the Daily Mail.
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