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Born: Established: 1957 Freiburg, Baden-Wurttemberg,
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Germany,
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Male
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1 36 Mirrors : Force Majeure by the Truckload Michael Hofmann , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 463 2024; (p. 45)
— Review of 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem Nam Le , 2024 selected work poetry 'Even in his first publication, the seven short stories of the rightly celebrated The Boat (2008), Nam Le was perhaps always most interested in creating an aura of violent unpredictability. He withheld consistency, offered cruxes, hit the reader with a blizzard of bold plots in settings so varied as to be practically contradictory – Hiroshima, Medellin, New York City, a fishing town on the Queensland coast. Where, as in the title story, Nam Le appears to relent and writes about what may have been his own experience (he was ferried to Australia as an infant), the baby dies. He is like a package determined not to contain what it says on the disclosure form; a letter that won’t be delivered to the stated address.' (Introduction)
1 A Black Hole : The Airbrushing of George Orwell’s Reputation Michael Hofmann , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 455 2023; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Wifedom : Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life Anna Funder , 2023 single work biography

'Wifedom is both an immovable and an irresistible book, an object and a force. Anna Funder, the author some years back of the bestselling Stasiland (2003), has written another great and important narrative of oppression and covert suppression, in this case of the first Mrs George Orwell, Eileen O’Shaughnessy (1905–45). The oppression and suppression are or were the work of her liberal and emancipatory husband – the nearest thing we have these days to a lay saint – and of his six (male) biographers. While nowhere a nasty book (what the Americans would call ‘mean’), it’s a kind of St George and the six dwarves. What’s strange is the persistence of the old bromides. In a recent Guardian review of D.J. Taylor’s Orwell: The new life (2023) – the biographer’s second go-around – Blake Morrison refers to ‘the practical Orwell’ and ‘the complaisant Eileen’. He wouldn’t have said either thing if he’d been able to read Funder’s new book.' (Introduction)   
1 Paradise i "The joy of rhizomes.", Michael Hofmann , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 442 2022; (p. 15)
1 Chiantishire Michael Hofmann , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: London Review of Books , 6 May vol. 43 no. 9 2021;
— Review of The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard , 2020 selected work short story 'Shirley​ hazzard was born in 1931 in Australia, the daughter of immigrants from Scotland and Wales. Both her parents, it’s said, were involved in the construction of Sydney Harbour Bridge. She went on to live on three other continents: Asia, Europe and North America. As is sometimes the way with writers whose biographies are yet to be written (Brigitta Olubas is on the case), information about Hazzard’s life is often tinged with exoticism. She was a teenage spy in Hong Kong after the Second World War; in the 1950s she worked (in a largely secretarial capacity) for the UN; she was married to the biographer and Flaubert scholar Francis Steegmuller (they were introduced by Muriel Spark, which doesn’t seem like the most propitious start) and lived with him in New York, Naples and Capri. She suffered from dementia and died in 2016.' (Introduction)
1 Consciously Verbal Michael Hofmann , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 8 November 2019; (p. 3-5)
— Review of Les Murray Collected Poems JR , 2018 single work review
1 Is His Name Alwyn? Michael Hofmann , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: London Review of Books , 18 December vol. 36 no. 4 2014; (p. 17-18)
— Review of The Narrow Road to the Deep North Richard Flanagan , 2013 single work novel
1 Recuerdos de Bundaberg i "Did I fly there? I may have flown there.", Michael Hofmann , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 353 2013;
1 Big Les! Michael Hofmann , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Poetry , October vol. 199 no. 1 2011; (p. 57-67)
— Review of Taller When Prone Les Murray , 2010 selected work poetry ; Killing the Black Dog : Essay and Poems Les Murray , 1997 selected work poetry prose
1 Coming into Everyone Else's Own Michael Hofmann , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December 2011-January 2012 no. 337 2011; (p. 21-23)
— Review of Australian Poetry Since 1788 2011 anthology poetry
1 Warszawa i "Chipping at frozen puddles.", Michael Hofmann , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Heat , no. 21 (New Series) 2009; (p. 38)
1 Judith Wright Arts Centre i "My office! My office at the Judy! The Judy", Michael Hofmann , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 7 August no. 5549 2009; (p. 5) Australian Book Review , November no. 316 2009; (p. 36) Travelling Without Gods : A Chris Wallace-Crabbe Companion 2014; (p. 119-110)
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