Jakov Lind (born Heinz Jakov Landwirth in Vienna, 1927 - died in London, 2007) was an Austrian-British writer of short stories and novels. A Jew who left Austria at the age of eleven after the Nazi annexation, he spent the war years in the Netherlands, where he survived in hiding under a false identity.
After a literary apprenticeship in Israel and a period in Vienna, he settled in London in 1954, though he kept returning to the Balearic Islands and New York. There he wrote in German the short stories and novels that established his reputation in Europe, among them Soul of Wood, Landscape in Concrete and Ergo, later translated into many languages. He then turned to English, beginning with the autobiography Counting My Steps, and went on to publish plays, travel narratives and fiction such as The Stove, The Inventor and Crossing.
His legacy lies in a body of work that treats the memory of the Holocaust with irony and sharp criticism of violence and identity, and in his decision to change literary language in mid-career.