Andrew Edmund Karpati Kennedy (born Kárpáti Andor Ödön; 9 January 1931 – 20 December 2016) was a Hungarian-born British author, literary critic and academic with a passionate interest in the language of drama.

[1] Born in Győr in the west of Hungary, Kennedy spent his early childhood in Debrecen, where his father was manager of the Credit Bank.

[3] After the war he returned to his studies, initially at his old school in Debrecen and then briefly in Budapest, attending the Fasori Gimnázium.

"[11] Whether writing literary criticism or a short story, Kennedy employed great economy of style, something he admired in Strindberg's Ghost Sonata, for example.

"[12] Both his book Six Dramatists in Search of a Language (1975, in which Kennedy explores the use of language by the playwrights Shaw, Eliot, Beckett, Pinter, Osborne and Arden) and Samuel Beckett were funded by grants from the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities (Norges Almenvitenskappelige Forskningsråd).

"[13] Writing about his novella The Antique Dealer's Women, Elaine Feinstein was full of praise: "The prose is so elegant, so sensuous, so assured.