Benjamin Hoffmann

Benjamin Hoffmann
Hoffmann in 2021
Born	(1985-11-13) 13 November 1985 Villeurbanne, France
Occupation	Novelist, Professor
Language	French, English
Nationality	French
Alma mater	Yale University (PhD) Sorbonne University (MA) University of Bordeaux (BA)
Genre	Novel, essays

Benjamin Hoffmann (born 13 November 1985) is a French creative writer and professor at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He's the author of novels and essays published in France and the United States. He specializes in the literature and culture of eighteenth-century France, and is the author of books and articles on transatlantic studies, the introduction of Buddhism in the West, and literary theory.

Biography

Born in France in 1985, Benjamin Hoffmann studied literature and philosophy at the University of Bordeaux, Sorbonne University, and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His first book, Le monde est beau on peut y voyager, was published in 2008 by Éditions Bastingage. In 2009, he became language assistant in the department of French at Amherst College. The sudden death of his father, Patrick Hoffmann, was the topic of his next book, Père et fils, published in 2011 by Éditions Gallimard. Also in 2011, he published his second novel, Anya Ivanovna with Éditions Bastingage. In 2015, he earned a Ph.D. from Yale University after finishing a dissertation dedicated to the representations of North America in eighteenth-century French Literature. He is currently Professor at The Ohio State University, where he teaches early modern French literature and creative writing.

Awards

Hoffmann received the Best PhD Dissertation Award ("Marguerite A. Peyre Prize") from the Department of French at Yale University in 2015. He also received a scholarship for academic excellence from the Sorbonne, and a Fellowship from the Whiting Foundation.

Books

• La Guerre des os, novel, Paris, Éditions Denoël, coll. Romans français, 2026
• Je suis Murakami, novella, Paris, Éditions Zone Critique, coll. Vrilles, 2025
• Les Minuscules, novel, Paris, Éditions Gallimard, coll. Blanche, 2024
• L'Île de la Sentinelle, novel, Paris, Éditions Gallimard, coll. Blanche, 2022
• Les Paradoxes de la postérité, monograph, Éditions de Minuit, coll. Paradoxe, 2019,
• L'Amérique posthume, monograph, Éditions Classiques Garnier, coll. L'Europe des Lumières, 2019
• Lezay-Marnésia, Lettres écrites des rives de l'Ohio, critical edition, Éditions Classiques Garnier, coll. Americana, 2019
• American Pandemonium, novel, Paris, Éditions Gallimard, coll. L'Arpenteur, 2016
• Père et fils, Paris, Éditions Gallimard, coll. L'Arpenteur, 2011
• Anya Ivanovna, novel, Bordeaux, Éditions Bastingage, 2011
• Le monde est beau on peut y voyager, novel, Bordeaux, Éditions Bastingage, 2008

Books in English

• Sentinel Island, translated by Alan J. Singerman, Liverpool UP, 2024
• The Paradoxes of Posterity, translated by Alan J. Singerman, Penn State UP, 2020
• Posthumous America, translated by Alan J. Singerman, Penn State UP, 2018
• Lezay-Marnésia, Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio, translated by Alan J. Singerman, Penn State UP, 2017

External links

• OSU Faculty Homepage
• Author's Website Archived 2022-07-31 at the Wayback Machine
• Benjamin Hoffmann: Éditions de Minuit.
• Benjamin Hoffmann: Éditions Gallimard.