Quintin Hoare (born 1938) is a British leftist intellectual and literary translator from languages including Italian, French, German, Russian and Bosnian."Authors , Quintin Hoare"

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. After studying Modern Languages at

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, in 1962 Hoare joined the editorial board of ''

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'', serving as its managing editor from 1963 to 1979. He and his wife, the

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n historian Branka Magas, eventually resigned in 1993. 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. Hoare edited the Pelican

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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

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in 1978/9 for Antonio Gramsci's ''Selections from Political Writings 1921–26'',"Past winners"
John Florio Prize

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. the

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in 1984 for

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's ''War Diaries'', and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize in 1989 for

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's short stories. Hoare's son is the historian

Marko Attila Hoare Marko Attila Hoare (born 1972) is a British historian of the former Yugoslavia who also writes about current affairs, especially Southeast Europe, including Turkey and the Caucasus. Biography Hoare is the son of the British translator Quintin ...

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