Markus Hoffmann

About the Agent

Markus Hoffmann joined Regal Literary in 2006 and became a partner in 2014. He studied English and Russian literature and linguistics in Munich, Moscow, and at Hertford College, Oxford. He began his publishing career in London in the late 1990s before moving to New York City in 2004. He handles a list of English-language and international writers of literary fiction and nonfiction, including unusual genre and graphic novels, and oversees the agency’s foreign rights. Markus insists on the proper pronunciation of "basil," "tomato," and "herb." He maintains that James Joyce’s Ulysses is the greatest novel ever written, though Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy isn’t far behind. He loves wearing sunglasses because Joy Williams does and wishes every book-to-film adaptation were as brilliant as Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock. He enthusiastically recommends Janna Levin’s A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, and William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days. He is obsessed with surfing, roller skating, and capoeira, and plays the trumpet in the publishing jazz combo The Editörial Standards.