Hello,

my name is Dominique Hoffman and I live in Normandy. I am a writer, translator, and painter.

and webmaster for zebras54

I write in English and French

Born into a Franco-German family, she has a  French Master Degree Applied Foreign Languages English-German  from the University of Montpellier.  She speaks French, German, English and Spanish. She grew up between France and Germany, and lived in Northern Ireland for 23 years and in Austria for two years. She worked in various professions as a translator, secretary, home help and private language tutor. She has been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, aged 34 years.

In 2001, she received second prize prize awarded by SPÖ Europabüro Vienna for her Essay "Europa hier  spielt die Music" ,and the year after, she  created her website zebras54, an arts and literature blog and began writing, taking photos and drawing.

In 2019, she was awarded second prize by Peintres dans la Rue Coutances for her painting  "City Hall of Coutances on D-Day"

She mostly writes European 20th Historical Fiction 

Her catalogue is being republished on Amazon

the first republished book in English is Bohemian Tales, see  on the left.