Anthony Rudolf

Anthony Rudolf was born in London, England. He was educated at City of London School and the British Institute in Paris. He studied modern languages and social anthropology at Cambridge University, graduating in 1964. He worked for the British Travel Association in London and Chicago, Illinois in 1964–1966, then taught English and French in London. He become the London editor of Stand magazine in 1969. From 1975 to 1982, he was advisory editor for Jewish Quarterly. In 1969, he founded Menard Press as a magazine, and published its first book in 1971. He ran the press for 40 years. Rudolf writes fiction, nonfiction, and art criticism. His memoirs include Silent Conversations: A Reader's Life (2013) and The Arithmetic of Memory (1999). His books of poems and short fiction include Zigzag (2010). Among his works of literary criticism are Wine from Two Glasses (1991) and At an Uncertain Hour: Primo Levi's War Against Oblivion (1990). He also translates works of fiction, drama, art criticism and poetry, including works by Yves Bonnefoy, Claude Vigée, Edmond Jabès, and Yevgeny Vinokourov. His other books include pioneering anthologies of contemporary French poetry and 20th-century Jewish poets from all languages. Rudolf has been an occasional radio and television broadcaster. He has written obituaries for the Independent and book reviews for the TLS. He was visiting lecturer in arts and humanities at London Metropolitan University. He was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1991, he arranged for the first translation and publication of the diary of his second cousin Jerzy Feliks Urman, an 11-year-old Polish Jewish boy who committed suicide during the Holocaust, based on a family typescript. Rudolf published a book called Jerzyk about the story. in 2015