Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith

Quintin Hoare is a British leftist intellectual and literary translator. He served on the editorial board of the New Left Review for many years before he and his wife, the Croatian historian Branka Magas, resigned in 1997.

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, where he is directing a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council on the history of the British Film Institute. He is the editor of The Oxford History of World Cinema (1996) and has published many books and articles on Italian cinema, most recently Luchino Visconti (2003).