References
- 1 2 3 4 "Authors | Quintin Hoare", Lawrence & Wishart.
- ↑ "Profile". Archived from the original on 20 January 2013. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- ↑ "Past winners", John Florio Prize The Society of Authors.
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Quintin Hoare | |
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| Born | 1938 |
| Died | 2025 (aged 86–87) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Oxford University |
| Occupation(s) | Literary translator and editor |
| Spouse | Branka Magas |
| Children | Marko Attila Hoare |
| Awards | John Florio Prize; Scott Moncrieff Prize; Schlegel-Tieck Prize |
Quintin Hoare (1938-2025) was a British leftist intellectual and literary translator from languages including Italian, French, German, Russian and Bosnian. [1]
After studying Modern Languages at Oxford University, in 1962 Hoare joined the editorial board of New Left Review , serving as its managing editor from 1963 to 1979. [1] He and his wife, the Croatian historian Branka Magas, eventually resigned in 1993. [1] Hoare was a founding editor of the journal Labour Focus on Eastern Europe , a founding member in 1993 of the Alliance to Defend Bosnia-Herzegovina, and in 1997 became director of the Bosnian Institute. [2]
Hoare edited the Pelican Marx Library, which ran to eight volumes. As a translator, he has worked in several languages, winning major awards for his translations from Italian, French and German: the John Florio Prize in 1978/9 for Antonio Gramsci's Selections from Political Writings 1921–26, [3] the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 1984 for Sartre's War Diaries, and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize in 1989 for Hermann Grab's short stories. [1]
Hoare's son is the historian Marko Attila Hoare.
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