Quintin Hoare (born 1938) is a British leftist intellectual and literary translator from languages including Italian, French, German, Russian and Bosnian.
[1] After studying Modern Languages at Oxford University, in 1962 Hoare joined the editorial board of New Left Review, serving as its managing editor from 1963 to 1979.
[1] He and his wife, the Croatian historian Branka Magas, eventually resigned in 1993.
[2] Hoare edited the Pelican Marx 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 John Florio Prize in 1978/9 for Antonio Gramsci's Selections from Political Writings 1921–26,[3] the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 1984 for Sartre's War Diaries, and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize in 1989 for Hermann Grab's short stories.