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Miron Grindea (31 January 1909 – 18 November 1995) was a
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n-born literary journalist and the editor of '' ADAM International Review'', a literary magazine published for more than 50 years. In 1984 ''ADAM'' was said to be "the world's longest surviving literary magazine". Its title was an acronym for "Arts, Drama, Architecture and Music".


Biography

Born Mondi Miron Grunberg in the
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n town of
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, he moved with his
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family after the
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to the capital,
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. Having studied humanities at the
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and at the
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in
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, Miron Grindea from 1929 began reviewing music and literature for the Jewish cultural review ''ADAM'' and became its co-editor in 1936. That same year, he married the pianist Carola Rabinovici (1914–2009); their daughter Nadia was also to become a pianist. Grindea and his wife arrived in Britain in September 1939, two days before the outbreak of the
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, and he was soon employed in the
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.


''ADAM International Review'', 1941–95

When in 1941, many émigré authors, including
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and Stefan Zweig, gathered in London for a meeting of the international writers' club
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, under the presidency of
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,
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(who were all among the several members of ''ADAM''’s editorial board) T. S. Eliot and George D. Painter. Grindea's personal library (housed at the
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Special Collections Library at the
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) includes signed copies of works by
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,
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, Robert Graves, Bertrand Russell, Tristan Tzara, Patrick Moore and Graham Greene and many others. As David Gascoyne noted: "It was in fact obvious, in the mid-forties,to any educated reader, that Adam's only rival was the then recently defunct The Criterion, Criterion, edited by T S Eliot.""Letters: Perceptive and passionate eye on the arts", Obituaries, ''The Guardian'', 23 November 1995, p. 18. Grindea edited and, with subsidies, financed ''ADAM'' from his London home at Emperor’s Gate in Kensington, over the decades featuring an eclectic range of subjects in the magazine (its title was an acronym for Art, Drama, Architecture and Music), and attracting an illustrious list of unpaid contributors (in both English and French), who at various times included George Bernard Shaw, Cecil Day-Lewis, W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, Anthony Powell, Lawrence Durrell, Winston Churchill, Max Beerbohm, François Mauriac and Samuel Beckett, at times featuring drawings by artists including Picasso and Chagall. Among those who made their debut in ''ADAM'' are Maureen Duffy and Wolf Mankowitz, and others Grindea enlisted as sometime workers include Margaret Busby (who on leaving university was briefly his editorial assistant) and Erik de Mauny, who recalled: "I am sure that I am not the only one among his friends to have been telephoned late at night with urgent requests for help and advice with the next number of Adam." Hanif Kureishi was quoted in a 2014 ''The Guardian, Guardian'' article as saying: "I only once pitchforked a person I knew directly into a novel to make a point, and that was Miron Grindea, the editor of the international literary magazine Adam, whose respectful attendance on the great and good in his editorials I found highly amusing." At the time of his death aged 86, in London in 1995, Grindea was working on the 500th edition of ''ADAM''.


Awards

* 1955, Prix de l'Académie française * 1965, Lundquist Literary Prize, Sweden * 1974, Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur * 1977, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) * 1983, Honorary DLitt degree from the University of Kent * 1985, Commander, Order of Arts and Letters, France * 1986, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)


Legacy

In 2006 ''ADAM: An Anthology of Miron Grindea's ADAM Editorials'' (2 volumes), selected and edited by his grand-daughter Rachel Lasserson (former editor of ''Jewish Quarterly''), was published (London: Vallentine Mitchell),C. J. Schüler
"Miron Grindea: The Don Quixote of Kensington"
(review of ''ADAM: An Anthology of Miron Grindea's ADAM Editorials''), ''The Independent'', 2 April 2006. with an Introduction entitled "Music, Proust and Anti-Semitism".


Archives

Miron Grindea's papers and the ''ADAM'' archives are largely held at King's College London. A commemorative exhibition, ''Miron Grindea and the Art of Literary Journalism'', was held at the Weston Room, Maughan Library, Maughan Library and Information Services Centre, Chancery Lane, in 2003. Two portraits are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London: an unattributed photo of Grindea taken in 1939 and a photograph by Barry Marsden (1989).Miron Grindea photo by Barry Marsden
bromide fibre print, 1989. National Portrait Gallery, London.


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* [http://sites.davidson.edu/littlemagazines/adam-description/ Bettina Lemm, ''ADAM'' description]
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Photograph of Miron Grindea
by Barry Marsden, National Portrait Gallery. {{DEFAULTSORT:Grindea, Miron 1909 births 1995 deaths University of Bucharest alumni University of Paris alumni Romanian magazine editors Jewish Romanian writers People from Târgu Ocna Romanian publishers (people) Literary editors Officers of the Order of the British Empire Romanian emigrants to the United Kingdom Romanian expatriates in France