Eva Hoffman
Eva Hoffman is an internationally renowned writer and academic. Her most important publications include Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language, Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe, Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews, The Secret, After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust, and Time. She teaches on the MA course at Kingston, London.
Books by Eva Hoffman
“I think it was a brilliant idea to approach one’s past through language. She grew up in post-holocaust Poland before she emigrated to Canada.” Read more...
Lyndall Gordon, Biographer
Interviews with Eva Hoffman
Eva Hoffman recommends the best Memoirs
To tell your own story is to confront and construct your deepest sense of self. The author of Lost in Translation tells us about five striking memoirs of identity, dislocation, and belonging.
Interviews where books by Eva Hoffman were recommended
The Best Literary Biographies, recommended by Lyndall Gordon
The inner life is a mystery but the best biographies expose the hidden kernel of a person, says literary biographer and academic, Lyndall Gordon. She picks five books that push the boundaries of the genre.
Books on the Refugee Experience, recommended by Shahram Khosravi
To understand what makes integration fail or succeed we need to know why migrants moved in the first place, says Shahram Khosravi, Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University and author of Young and Defiant in Tehran and ‘Illegal’ Traveller.
