Quintin Hoare

Quintin Hoare served on the editorial committee of New Left Review from 1962 to 1992, and of Labour Focus on Eastern Europe from 1977 to 1993. He worked for most of his life up to the mid nineties as a self-employed literary translator. During this time he published inter alia English versions of works by Antonio Gramsci (John Florio Prize 1979), Franco Moretti, Jean-Paul Sartre (Scott Moncrieff Prize 1984), Paul Nizan, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Berque, Germaine Tillion, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Hermann Grab (Schlegel-Tieck Prize 1989), Richard Wagner and Siegfried Kracauer, and more recently a translation from the Bosnian of Mladen Vuksanovic’s From Enemy Territory. He was general editor of the eight-volume Pelican Marx Library, and co-wrote, with Noel Malcolm, Books on Bosnia: a critical bibliography of works relating to Bosnia-Herzegovina published since 1990 in West European languages (1999). He was co-founder and secretary of the Alliance to Defend Bosnia-Herzegovina (1993-96), and likewise of the Free Kosova Committee (1999). Since 1997 he has been full-time director of The Bosnian Institute (14/16 St Mark’s Road, W11 1RQ / www.bosnia.org.uk / telephone 020 7243 2900)and editor of its Bosnia Report. quintin@bosnia.org.uk.

Affiliations

• Alliance to Defend Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Free Kosova Committee
• Bosnian Institute
• Euston Manifesto