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.^[1][2][3][4]

He was the son of the politician John Leng Sturrock.

Selected publications

Author

• French New Novel: Claude Simon, Michel Butor, Alain Robbe-Grillet. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1969. ISBN 9780192121783
• Paper Tigers: Ideal Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977. ISBN 0198157460
• The French Pyrenees. Faber, London, 1988. ISBN 0571137415
• The Language of Autobiography: Studies in the first person singular. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993. ISBN 0521412900
• The Word from Paris: Essays on modern French writers and thinkers. Verso, London, 1998. ISBN 185984832X
• Structuralism. Blackwell, Oxford, 2002.

Editor

• Structuralism and Since: From Lévi Strauss to Derrida. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1979. ISBN 0192158392
• The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996. ISBN 0198182627
• The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996. ISBN 0192833189

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.