Anna Rutherford (27 November 1932 – 21 February 2001) was an Australian-born academic and publisher, who helped to establish the field of post-colonial literature in Europe.
[1] Rutherford was born in Australia in Mayfield, Newcastle, New South Wales.
[2] In 1979, she founded Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing & Culture and was its editor until her death.
[4] Rutherford also founded and was director of the small publishing company Dangaroo Press.
[5] In 1996 an edited collection, A talent(ed) digger, was published in Rutherford's memory.