John Sturrock

John Anning Leng Sturrock (14 June 1930 – 15 August 2017) was an English writer, editor, reviewer and translator who was closely associated with The Times Literary Supplement and later the London Review of Books.

He was the son of the politician John Leng Sturrock.

Selected publications Author French New Novel: Claude Simon, Michel Butor, Alain Robbe-Grillet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969. Paper Tigers: Ideal Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. The French Pyrenees. London: Faber, 1988. The Language of Autobiography: Studies in the first person singular. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. The Word from Paris: Essays on modern French writers and thinkers. London: Verso, 1998. Structuralism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

Editor Structuralism and Since: From Lévi Strauss to Derrida. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Translations De Gaulle, Israel and the Jews, Praeger, 1969; Transaction Publishers, 2004; Routledge, 2017. In French: De Gaulle, Israël et les Juifs, Paris: Plon, 1968. The Charterhouse of Parma (1836), by Stendhal, Penguin, 2006.