Miron Grindea

Miron Grindea OBE (31 January 1909 – 18 November 1995) was a Romanian-born literary journalist and the editor of ADAM International Review, a literary magazine published for over 50 years. In 1984 ADAM was said to be "the world's longest surviving literary magazine". Its title was an acronym for "Arts, Drama, Architecture and Music".

Born Mondi Miron Grunberg in the Moldavian town of Târgu Ocna, he moved with his Jewish family after the First World War to the capital, Bucharest. Having studied humanities at the University of Bucharest and at the Sorbonne in Paris, Miron Grindea from 1929 began reviewing music and literature for the Jewish cultural review ADAM and became its co-editor in 1936. That same year, he married the pianist Carola Rabinovici (1914-2009); their daughter Nadia was also to become a pianist. Grindea and his wife arrived in Britain in September 1939, two days before the outbreak of the Second World War, and he was soon employed in the BBC’s European Intelligence Section at Bush House, London.

When in 1941, many émigré authors, including Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig, gathered in London for a meeting of the international writers' club PEN, under the presidency of H. G. Wells, Grindea was inspired to start an international literary journal. To avoid wartime restrictions on new publications, he revived ADAM in September that year.

His eminent associates and contributors included Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender, J. B. Priestley (who were all among the several members of ADAM’s editorial board) T. S. Eliot and George D. Painter. Grindea’s personal library (housed at the Foyles Special Collections Library at the Maughan Library) includes signed copies of works by Arthur Koestler, André Gide, Robert Graves, Bertrand Russell, Tristan Tzara, Patrick Moore and Graham Greene and many others.

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