Grantas Best of Young British Novelists 5 Granta Magazine 2023-03-22 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has dedicated an issue to showcasing the twenty most significant British novelists under forty. On 27th April 2023, Granta will showcase the fifth Best of Young British Novelists list, chosen by our panel of judges: Tash Aw, Rachel Cusk, Brian Dillon, Helen Oyeyemi and Sigrid Rausing.Discover more at granta.com/best-of-young/.
Introducing Tom Crewe | Grantas Best of Young British Novelists Granta Magazine 2023-11-15 | Tom Crewe was born in Middlesbrough in 1989. He has a PhD in nineteenth century British history from the University of Cambridge. Since 2015 he has been an editor at the London Review of Books, to which he has contributed more than thirty essays on politics, art, history and fiction. The New Life, his first novel, was published in January. The book deftly recreates Victorian England in a stylish and richly-textured exploration of sex and social mores.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsTom Crewe: granta.com/boybn-tom-creweThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
Introducing Derek Owusu | Grantas Best of Young British Novelists Granta Magazine 2023-11-15 | Derek Owusu is a writer and poet. He is the editor of SAFE: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space, and the author of That Reminds Me – which was awarded the 2020 Desmond Elliot Prize – and Losing the Plot. Associative, experimental and deeply poetic, Owusu’s writing has a delicate edge, lending a lyrical veneer to his poignant fictionalisations of British Ghanaian culture.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsDerek Owusu : granta.com/boybn-derek-owusuThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
Introducing Yara Rodrigues Fowler | Grantas Best of Young British Novelists Granta Magazine 2023-11-15 | Yara Rodrigues Fowler grew up in South London. She is the author of two novels, Stubborn Archivist and there are more things. Stubborn Archivist was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2019, the Desmond Eliot Prize 2019 and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2019; there are more things received the Society of Authors’ John C Lawrence Award 2018 and was shortlisted for the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award 2020 (both as a work in progress) and shortlisted for the the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022. Her writing displays a commitment to both politics and craft. With each project, Fowler strains against tradition, testing the boundaries of how fiction might be used as a tool for change.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsYara Rodrigues Fowler: granta.com/boybn-yara-rodrigues-fowlerThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
Introducing Jennifer Atkins | Grantas Best of Young British Novelists Granta Magazine 2023-11-15 | Jennifer Atkins was born in London, where she is currently based. Her fiction has been published by the White Review and she has written for the World of Interiors magazine. She writes with elegance and detail, her prose keenly observant and emotionally astute. Her debut novel, The Cellist, was published in 2022.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsJennifer Atkins: granta.com/boybn-jennifer-atkinsThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
Introducing Eleanor Catton | Grantas Best of Young British Novelists Granta Magazine 2023-11-15 | Eleanor Catton is the author of The Luminaries, winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, The Rehearsal and Birnam Wood. As a screenwriter, she adapted The Luminaries for television, and Jane Austen’s Emma for feature film. Her ambitious novels combine plot with wit and psychological insight, probing the mechanics of society’s failures and triumphs. Born in Canada and raised in New Zealand, she now lives in Cambridge.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsEleanor Catton: granta.com/boybn-eleanor-cattonThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Interview with Graeme Armstrong | Grantas Best of Young British Novelists Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Graeme Armstrong is a multi-award winning and Times bestselling author from Airdrie. His teenage years were spent within Scotland’s ‘young team’ gang culture, an experience that features in much of his writing. He writes in Scots dialect. After reading English as an undergraduate, he completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling and is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Strathclyde. He is the author of The Young Team.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsGraeme Armstrong: granta.com/boybn-graeme-armstrongThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Interview with Eleanor Catton | Grantas Best of Young British Novelists Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Eleanor Catton is the author of The Luminaries, winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, The Rehearsal and Birnam Wood. As a screenwriter, she adapted The Luminaries for television, and Jane Austen’s Emma for feature film. Her ambitious novels combine plot with wit and psychological insight, probing the mechanics of society’s failures and triumphs. Born in Canada and raised in New Zealand, she now lives in Cambridge.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsEleanor Catton: granta.com/boybn-eleanor-cattonThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Interview with Yara Rodrigues Fowler | Grantas Best of Young British Novelists Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Yara Rodrigues Fowler grew up in South London. She is the author of two novels, Stubborn Archivist and there are more things. Stubborn Archivist was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2019, the Desmond Eliot Prize 2019 and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2019; there are more things received the Society of Authors’ John C Lawrence Award 2018 and was shortlisted for the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award 2020 (both as a work in progress) and shortlisted for the the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022. Her writing displays a commitment to both politics and craft. With each project, Fowler strains against tradition, testing the boundaries of how fiction might be used as a tool for change.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsYara Rodrigues Fowler: granta.com/boybn-yara-rodrigues-fowlerThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Interview with Tom Crewe | Grantas Best of Young British Novelists Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Tom Crewe was born in Middlesbrough in 1989. He has a PhD in nineteenth century British history from the University of Cambridge. Since 2015 he has been an editor at the London Review of Books, to which he has contributed more than thirty essays on politics, art, history and fiction. The New Life, his first novel, was published in January. The book deftly recreates Victorian England in a stylish and richly-textured exploration of sex and social mores.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsTom Crewe: granta.com/boybn-tom-creweThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Interview with Jennifer Atkins | Grantas Best of Young British Novelists Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Jennifer Atkins was born in London, where she is currently based. Her fiction has been published by the White Review and she has written for the World of Interiors magazine. She writes with elegance and detail, her prose keenly observant and emotionally astute. Her debut novel, The Cellist, was published in 2022.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsJennifer Atkins: granta.com/boybn-jennifer-atkinsThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Interview with Derek Owusu | Grantas Best of Young British Novelists Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Derek Owusu is a writer and poet. He is the editor of SAFE: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space, and the author of That Reminds Me – which was awarded the 2020 Desmond Elliot Prize – and Losing the Plot. Associative, experimental and deeply poetic, Owusu’s writing has a delicate edge, lending a lyrical veneer to his poignant fictionalisations of British Ghanaian culture.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsDerek Owusu : granta.com/boybn-derek-owusuThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from Sophie Mackintoshs Theories of Care Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation. Sophie Mackintosh was born in South Wales in 1988, and is currently based in London. She is the author of novels The Water Cure, Blue Ticket, and Cursed Bread, and her work has been published by the New York Times, Granta, the Stinging Fly and others. The Water Cure was long listed for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Her richly imaginative prose often follows the contours of fables and myths.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsSophie Mackintosh: granta.com/boybn-sophie-mackintoshThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from Yara Rodrigues Fowlers ‘Best Last Minute Spa Deal for Under £40’ Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation. Yara Rodrigues Fowler grew up in South London. She is the author of two novels, Stubborn Archivist and there are more things. Stubborn Archivist was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2019, the Desmond Eliot Prize 2019 and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2019; there are more things received the Society of Authors’ John C Lawrence Award 2018 and was shortlisted for the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award 2020 (both as a work in progress) and shortlisted for the the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022. Her writing displays a commitment to both politics and craft. With each project, Fowler strains against tradition, testing the boundaries of how fiction might be used as a tool for change.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsYara Rodrigues Fowler: granta.com/boybn-yara-rodrigues-fowlerThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from Tom Crewes The Room Service Waiter Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation. Tom Crewe was born in Middlesbrough in 1989. He has a PhD in nineteenth century British history from the University of Cambridge. Since 2015 he has been an editor at the London Review of Books, to which he has contributed more than thirty essays on politics, art, history and fiction. The New Life, his first novel, was published in January. The book deftly recreates Victorian England in a stylish and richly-textured exploration of sex and social mores.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsTom Crewe: granta.com/boybn-tom-creweThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from Camilla Grudovas Ivor Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation. Camilla Grudova is the author of The Doll’s Alphabet, Children of Paradise and The Coiled Serpent. Her anarchic and often inexplicable short stories recall the distorted fairy tale landscapes of Leonora Carrington, Angela Carter and Barbara Comyns, and her novel unfolds in a similarly surreal vein. She lives in Edinburgh.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsCamilla Grudova: granta.com/boybn-camilla-grudovaThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from K Patricks Mrs S Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation. K Patrick is a writer based on the Isle of Lewis. In 2021 they were shortlisted for both the White Review Poetry and Short Story Prize, and in 2020 were runner-up in the Ivan Juritz Prize and the Laura Kinsella Fellowship. Their debut novel, MRS S, will be published June 2023. Relayed in bodily, impressionistic brushstrokes, Patrick’s novel speaks to their sensibilities as a poet: the writing is sensory and tactile, leaning toward intimation and gesture to convey the protagonist’s longing and want.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsK Patrick: granta.com/boybn-k-patrickThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from Saba Sams Gunk Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation. Saba Sams is a writer based in London. Send Nudes, her debut collection of short stories, was published in 2022 and was longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. Her fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Granta, the Stinging Fly and the White Review, among others. Her writing is acerbic, empathetic and sharply attuned to the specific shames and pleasures of feminine experience.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsSaba Sams: granta.com/boybn-saba-samsThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from Sarah Bernsteins A Dying Tongue Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation. Sarah Bernstein is from Montreal, Quebec and lives in the Northwest Highlands. She is the author of Study for Obedience, The Coming Bad Days, and Now Comes the Lightning. Her writing has been called ‘the new millennium’s answer to modernism’.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsSarah Bernstein: granta.com/boybn-sarah-bernsteinThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from Anna Metcalfes Circles Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation. Anna Metcalfe is a writer and lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham. Her story collection Blind Water Pass was published in 2016. Chrysalis, publishing in May 2023, is her first novel. Metcalfe’s writing traffics in suggestion and allusion, and is concerned with ideas of reinvention, identity and obligation.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsAnna Metcalfe: granta.com/boybn-anna-metcalfeThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from Olivia Sudjics The Termite Queen Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation. Olivia Sudjic is the author of Sympathy, which was a finalist for the Salerno European Book Award and the Collyer Bristow Prize, and Exposure, a non-fiction work named an Irish Times, Evening Standard and White Review Book of the Year for 2018. Her second novel, Asylum Road, was published in 2021 and shortlisted for the Encore Award and the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize. Her writing is carefully controlled, evoking the anxieties and pleasures of modern living.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsOlivia Sudjic: granta.com/olivia-sudjicThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from Derek Owusus Kweku Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation. Derek Owusu is a writer and poet. He is the editor of SAFE: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space, and the author of That Reminds Me – which was awarded the 2020 Desmond Elliot Prize – and Losing the Plot. Associative, experimental and deeply poetic, Owusu’s writing has a delicate edge, lending a lyrical veneer to his poignant fictionalisations of British Ghanaian culture.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsDerek Owusu : granta.com/boybn-derek-owusuThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from Isabella Hammads A Note in the Margin Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation. Isabella Hammad is the author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost. She was awarded the Plimpton Prize for Fiction, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Palestine Book Award and a Betty Trask Award. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Lannan Foundation. Invested in the rhythms of history and politics, her writing is erudite, searching and full of feeling.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsIsabella Hammad: granta.com/boybn-isabella-hammadThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from Jennifer Atkins A Certain King Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation. Jennifer Atkins was born in London, where she is currently based. Her fiction has been published by the White Review and she has written for the World of Interiors magazine. She writes with elegance and detail, her prose keenly observant and emotionally astute. Her debut novel, The Cellist, was published in 2022.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsJennifer Atkins: granta.com/boybn-jennifer-atkinsThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from Eleanor Cattons Doubtful Sound Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation. Eleanor Catton is the author of The Luminaries, winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, The Rehearsal and Birnam Wood. As a screenwriter, she adapted The Luminaries for television, and Jane Austen’s Emma for feature film. Her ambitious novels combine plot with wit and psychological insight, probing the mechanics of society’s failures and triumphs. Born in Canada and raised in New Zealand, she now lives in Cambridge.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsEleanor Catton: granta.com/boybn-eleanor-cattonThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from Sara Baumes The Hair Baby Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation. Sara Baume is the author of three novels, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, A Line Made by Walking and Seven Steeples, and one book of non-fiction, Handiwork. Baume’s lyrical prose is finely tuned to subtleties of rhythm and cadence. Born in the United Kingdom, she now lives and works on the south coast of Ireland, where she balances writing with her work as a visual artist.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsSara Baume: granta.com/boybn-sara-baumeThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from Lauren Aimee Curtis Strangers at the Port Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation. Lauren Aimee Curtis was born in Sydney in 1988. She is the author of Dolores – shortlisted for the Readings Prize, the UTS Glenda Adams Award and chosen as a New Statesman ‘Book of the Year’ – and Strangers at the Port. Her writing is melodic, intense and knowing, and is marked by a passion for the peculiar.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsLauren Aimee Curtis: granta.com/boybn-lauren-aimee-curtisThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from Thomas Morris Wales Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation. Thomas Morris was born and raised in Caerphilly, South Wales. His debut story collection We Don’t Know What We’re Doing won Wales Book of the Year, The Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award and a Somerset Maugham Prize. His stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published and anthologised in Zoetrope; Best European Fiction; and The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story. His second book of stories, Open Up, will be published in August 2023. His writing is careful, controlled and observant, capturing the essence of how people, communities and families coalesce.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsThomas Morris: granta.com/boybn-thomas-morrisThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from Eley Williams Rostrum Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation.Eley Williams works at Royal Holloway, University of London. Alongside her novel, The Liar’s Dictionary, and her collection of short fiction, Attrib., her writing is published in journals and anthologies including Modern Queer Poets, The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story, and Liberating the Canon, with stories and serialised fiction also recently commissioned by BBC Radio 4. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her work displays a roving intelligence, and delights in lexigraphy and the world of words.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsEley Williams: granta.com/boybn-eley-williamsThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
An Extract from Graeme Armstrongs The Cloud Factory Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has appointed a panel of judges to select the twenty British novelists under the age of forty that promise to be the most significant of their generation. Graeme Armstrong is a multi-award winning and Times bestselling author from Airdrie. His teenage years were spent within Scotland’s ‘young team’ gang culture, an experience that features in much of his writing. He writes in Scots dialect. After reading English as an undergraduate, he completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling and is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Strathclyde.He is the author of The Young Team.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsGraeme Armstrong: granta.com/boybn-graeme-armstrongThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
Grantas Best of Young British Novelists Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazine has dedicated an issue to showcasing the twenty most significant British novelists under forty. Each list shines a spotlight on the literary stars of the future, announcing a set of extraordinary new talents, and revealing new directions in British culture.On the 2023 judging panel were writers Tash Aw, Rachel Cusk, Brian Dillon and Helen Oyeyemi, chaired by Granta editor Sigrid Rausing.This content series for Granta's Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts: britishcouncil.org/artsDiscover more at granta.com/best-young-novelists
Introducing Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | This cohort of the twenty most significant writers under forty working in the UK today was selected by judges Tash Aw, Rachel Cusk, Brian Dillon, Helen Oyeyemi and Sigrid Rausing. Congratulations to Graeme Armstrong, Jennifer Atkins, Sara Baume, Sarah Bernstein, Natasha Brown, Eleanor Catton, Eliza Clark, Tom Crewe, Lauren Aimee Curtis, Camilla Grudova, Isabella Hammad, Sophie Mackintosh, Anna Metcalfe, Thomas Morris, Derek Owusu, K Patrick, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Saba Sams, Olivia Sudjic and Eley Williams.This content series for Granta's Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts: britishcouncil.org/artsDiscover more at granta.com/best-young-novelists
Introducing Graeme Armstrong | Grantas Best of Young British Novelists Granta Magazine 2023-11-14 | Graeme Armstrong is a multi-award winning and Times bestselling author from Airdrie. His teenage years were spent within Scotland’s ‘young team’ gang culture, an experience that features in much of his writing. He writes in Scots dialect. After reading English as an undergraduate, he completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling and is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Strathclyde. He is the author of The Young Team.Best of Young British Novelists 2023: granta.com/best-young-novelistsGraeme Armstrong: granta.com/boybn-graeme-armstrongThis content series for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists is supported by British Council Arts.
Announcing Granta’s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists 2 Granta Magazine 2021-04-15 | Granta’s second list celebrating young Spanish-language novelists showcases the next generation of literary talent. This issue contains new writing from twenty-five of the most exciting writers aged thirty-five and under from across the Spanish-speaking world.The judges Chloe Aridjis, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Rodrigo Fresán, Aurelio Major, Gaby Wood and editor Valerie Miles present an authoritative list of the best writers of this generation, and have created a lasting snapshot of a vibrant and diverse literary scene.Granta 155: Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists 2 will be published on 29 April in the UK, on 6 May in the US and in Spain as Granta en Español 23: Los Mejores Narradores Jóvenes en Español 2 (Editorial Candaya) on 12 April.
Launch of Granta 154: I’ve Been Away for a While Granta Magazine 2021-03-09 | On 11 February 2021, we published our winter issue, Granta 154: I’ve Been Away for a While. A selection of contributors joined us on Zoom to read and show their work. Featuring: poetry by Jason Allen-Paisant, Jesse Darling and Nate Duke, fiction by Paul Dalla Rosa and Dan Shurley, memoir and essays by Rory Gleeson, Lindsey Hilsum and Ian Jack, and photography by Gus Palmer and Fergus Thomas.
Granta 153: Second Nature Zoom Launch Granta Magazine 2020-12-03 | On 19 November 2020, we published Granta 153: Second Nature and celebrated with a reading on Zoom, moderated by guest-editor Isabella Tree.
Paul Dalla Rosa reads from ‘Comme’ Granta Magazine 2019-12-05 | Paul Dalla Rosa reads from ‘Comme’, published in Granta 144: genericlovestory.
Paul Dalla Rosa In Conversation | Granta Granta Magazine 2019-12-04 | Granta’s managing editor Eleanor Chandler talks to Paul Dalla Rosa about his story ‘Comme’, featured in Granta 144: genericlovestory. They talk about the alienation of work, writing bodies and the craft of short stories.
False Starts Trailer | Granta Magazine Granta Magazine 2019-12-03 | False Starts is a video interview series from Granta Magazine about the highs and lows of the creative process. We speak to Paul Auster, Nicola Barker, Elif Batuman, Mohsin Hamid, Cynan Jones, Joanna Kavenna, Ben Lerner, Sarah Moss, George Saunders, and more.Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2GTTZySTwitter: twitter.com/grantamagFacebook: facebook.com/grantamag
Peter Pomerantsev on the Politics of Feeling Granta Magazine 2019-06-11 | Peter Pomerantsev speaks to Devorah Baum about the role that Russia plays in the fantasy lives of the West, polarisation in politics, the dynamics of social media, and how to talk politics without spitting.Read Peter Pomerantsev’s essay, 'Normalnost', in Granta 146: Politics of Feeling: granta.com/normalnost
Devorah Baum, Josh Cohen and Anouchka Grose discuss Granta 146: The Politics of Feeling Granta Magazine 2019-03-18 | For the launch of Granta 146: The Politics of Feeling, Devorah Baum, Josh Cohen and Anouchka Grose discussed the ways in which feelings have come to affect our political opinions, the complexities of democracy, and the competing pulls of activism, inertia and despair. The event was hosted by the Libreria Bookshop in London.
Dionne Brand Reads from The Blue Clerk Granta Magazine 2018-11-09 | Dionne Brand reads from 'The Blue Clerk', her contribution to Granta 141: Canada. ‘I will have cleaned out all of my doubt, all of my prevarication, all of my timidity.’For more Canadian writing, and to read this poem in full, browse our Canada issue in full here: granta.com/issues/granta-141-canada
Sarah Moss | False Starts | Granta Magazine Granta Magazine 2018-08-20 | Sarah Moss on how her first drafts are like a dressmaker's maquettes, the research that precedes every new project she undertakes, and the importance of reading to a writer.Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2GTTZySTwitter: twitter.com/grantamagFacebook: facebook.com/grantamag
Cynan Jones | False Starts | Granta Magazine Granta Magazine 2018-07-05 | Cynan Jones on the reading he does in preparation for writing, the novels he’s had to put in a drawer and what it takes to get things right the first time.Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2GTTZySTwitter: twitter.com/grantamagFacebook: facebook.com/grantamag
Paul Auster | False Starts | Granta Magazine Granta Magazine 2018-06-21 | ‘I think of art, and the making of art, as an illness, really.’ Paul Auster on giving up on fiction at twenty-three and returning to it in his thirties. Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2GTTZySTwitter: twitter.com/grantamagFacebook: facebook.com/grantamag
Mohsin Hamid | False Starts | Granta Magazine Granta Magazine 2018-06-04 | Mohsin Hamid on the benefits of a starting a novel for the fourth time, why writing is like digging a well, and the Douglas Adams school of authorship.Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2GTTZySTwitter: twitter.com/grantamagFacebook: facebook.com/grantamag
Ben Lerner | False Starts | Granta Magazine Granta Magazine 2018-04-27 | ‘If I know too much about what I want to do in a piece of writing, it will be a failure in an uninteresting way.’ Ben Lerner on short-circuiting his neurotic inclinations, wrestling with his own architecture and thinking of himself as a poet.Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2GTTZySTwitter: twitter.com/grantamagFacebook: facebook.com/grantamag
Elif Batuman | False Starts | Granta Magazine Granta Magazine 2018-04-12 | Elif Batuman on The Idiot, the porous boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, and why everyone should approach writing like Snoopy the dog.Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2GTTZySTwitter: twitter.com/grantamagFacebook: facebook.com/grantamag
Nicola Barker | False Starts | Granta Magazine Granta Magazine 2018-03-29 | Nicola Barker on the difficult transition from a text-on-the-screen to a text-on-the-published-page. ‘Writing a book is like a fountain – the water is cascading down, and you’re trying to catch it, or just move it about.’Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2GTTZySTwitter: twitter.com/grantamagFacebook: facebook.com/grantamag
Joanna Kavenna | False Starts | Granta Magazine Granta Magazine 2018-03-14 | Joanna Kavenna on the relativity of judgement, the unpublished work that precedes every finished book, and the glorious enterprise of writing for no one but yourself.Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2GTTZySTwitter: twitter.com/grantamagFacebook: facebook.com/grantamag
George Saunders | False Starts | Granta Magazine Granta Magazine 2018-03-01 | George Saunders talks about the unfinished novel and abandoned play that led him to write his Man Booker Prize-winning first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo.Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2GTTZySTwitter: twitter.com/grantamagFacebook: facebook.com/grantamag
