# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-hofmann-q101170
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:34:15.442Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-hofmann-q101170"
name: "Michael Hofmann"
slug: "michael-hofmann-q101170"
description: "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\"."
tagline: "German-born poet and translator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Hofmann_at_the_2025_Jaipur_Literature_Festival_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-08-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.039564
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "مائیکل ہوفمین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ميخائيل هوفمان (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%81%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%85)"
    title: "مايكل هوفمان (مترجم)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "مایکل هافمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hofmann_(Autor)"
    title: "Michael Hofmann (Autor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hofmann"
    title: "Michael Hofmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hofmann"
    title: "Michael Hofmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C_(%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C)"
    title: "Хофман, Михаэль (писатель)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump