Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

Eva Hoffman

1989

It is April 1959, I’m standing at the railing of the Batory’s upper deck, and I feel that my life is ending. I’m looking out at the crowd that has gathered on the shore to see the ship’s departure from Gdynia—a crowd that, all of a sudden, is irrevocably on the other side—and I want to break out, run back, run toward the familiar excitement, the…

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Eva Hoffman

b. 1945

Born in Kraków, Eva Hoffman imigrated to Canada as a child, and now is a writer, speaker, and educator who has taught creative writing at a number of American universities. The author of a memoir, novels, and nonfiction addressing the Holocaust, she worked as an editor at the New York Times. In 1990 Hoffman received the Jean Stein Award for nonfiction. She lives in London.

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