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Quintin Hoare
Born1938 (age 85–86)
NationalityBritish
Alma mater Oxford University
Occupation(s)Literary translator and editor
SpouseBranka Magas
Children Marko Attila Hoare
Awards John Florio Prize; Scott Moncrieff Prize; Schlegel-Tieck Prize

Quintin Hoare (born 1938) is 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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