''Granta'' is a
literary magazine
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and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real."
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'' stated: "In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, ''Granta'' has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world."
Granta has published twenty-seven laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Literature published by Granta regularly win prizes such as the Forward Prize
The Forward Prizes for Poetry are major British awards for poetry, presented annually at a public ceremony in London. They were founded in 1992 by William Sieghart with the aim of celebrating excellence in poetry and increasing its audience. The ...
, T. S. Eliot Prize, Pushcart Prize and more.
History
''Granta'' was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
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, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
as ''The Granta'', edited by R. C. Lehmann
Rudolph Chambers "R.C." Lehmann (3 January 1856 – 22 January 1929) was an English writer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910. As a writer he was best known for three decades in which he was a major c ...
(who later became a major contributor to ''Punch
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''). It was started as a periodical featuring student politics, badinage and literary efforts. The title was taken from the medieval name for the Cam
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, the river which runs through the town, but is now used only for two of that river's tributaries
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. An early editor of the magazine was R. P. Keigwin, the English cricketer and Danish scholar; in 1912–13 the editor was the poet, writer and reviewer Edward Shanks
Edward Richard Buxton Shanks (11 June 1892 – 4 May 1953) was an English writer, known as a war poet of World War I, then as an academic and journalist, and literary critic and biographer. He also wrote some science fiction. E. F. Bleiler and Rich ...
.
In this form the magazine had a long and distinguished history. The magazine published juvenilia of a number of writers who later became well known: Geoffrey Gorer, William Empson
Sir William Empson (27 September 1906 – 15 April 1984) was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, a practice fundamental to New Criticism. His best-known work is his first ...
, Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn, FRSL (; born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce '' Noises Off'' and the dramas ''Copenhagen'' and ''Democracy''. His novels, such as '' Towards the End of the M ...
, Ted Hughes
Edward James "Ted" Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest wri ...
, A. A. Milne
Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winni ...
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, '' Th ...
, Bertram Fletcher Robinson
Bertram Fletcher Robinson (22 August 1870 – 21 January 1907) was an English sportsman, journalist, author and Liberal Unionist Party campaigner. Between 1893 and 1907, he wrote nearly three hundred items, including a series of short stories th ...
, John Simpson, and Stevie Smith
Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971), was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. A play, '' Stevie'' by Hugh Whitemore, ba ...
.
Rebirth
During the 1970s the publication, faced with financial difficulties and increasing levels of student apathy, was rescued by a group of interested postgraduates
Postgraduate or graduate education refers to academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate (bachelor's) degree.
The organization and struc ...
, including writer and producer Jonathan Levi
Jonathan Levi (born 1955, in New York City) is an American writer and producer.
Biography
Following graduation from Yale University in 1977, Levi received a Mellon Fellowship to study at Clare College, Cambridge University, where he co‑foun ...
, journalist Bill Buford
Bill Buford (born 1954) is an American author and journalist. Buford is the author of the books ''Among the Thugs'' and ''Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscan ...
, and Peter de Bolla (now Professor of Cultural History and Aesthetics at Cambridge University
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Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
). In 1979, it was successfully relaunched as a magazine of "new writing", with both writers and audience drawn from the world beyond Cambridge. Bill Buford
Bill Buford (born 1954) is an American author and journalist. Buford is the author of the books ''Among the Thugs'' and ''Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscan ...
(who wrote ''Among the Thugs
''Among the Thugs: The Experience, and the Seduction, of Crowd Violence'' is a 1990 work of journalism by American writer Bill Buford documenting football hooliganism in the United Kingdom.
Buford, who lived in the UK at the time, became interest ...
'' originally as a project for the journal) was the editor for its first 16 years in the new incarnation. Ian Jack
Ian Grant Jack (7 February 1945 – 28 October 2022) was a British reporter, writer and editor. He edited the ''Independent on Sunday'', the literary magazine ''Granta'' and wrote regularly for ''The Guardian''.
Early life
Jack was born in Fa ...
succeeded him, editing ''Granta'' from 1995 until 2007.
In April 2007, it was announced that Jason Cowley, editor of the ''Observer Sport Monthly'', would succeed Jack as editor in September 2007. Cowley redesigned and relaunched the magazine; he also launched a new website. In September 2008, he left when he was selected as editor of the ''New Statesman
The ''New Statesman'' is a British political and cultural magazine published in London. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was at first connected with Sidney and Beatrice Webb and other leading members ...
.''
Alex Clark Alex Clark may refer to:
* Alex Clark (baseball), American baseball player
* Alex Clark (journalist), British literary journalist
* Alex Clark (politician)
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, a former deputy literary editor of ''The Observer
''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. It is a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993. First published in 1791, it is the w ...
'', succeeded him as the first female editor of ''Granta''. In late May 2009, Clark left the publication and John Freeman, the American editor, took over the magazine.[Oliver Luft]
"Alex Clark steps down as Granta editor"
''The Guardian'', 29 May 2009.
, ''Granta''s circulation was almost 50,000.
Ownership
In 1994, Rea Hederman
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Places
* Rea, Lombardy, in Italy
* Rea, Missouri, United States
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, owner of ''The New York Review of Books
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,'' took a controlling stake in the magazine. In October 2005, control of the magazine was bought by Sigrid Rausing
Sigrid Maria Elisabet Rausing (born 29 January 1962) is a Swedish philanthropist, anthropologist and publisher. She is the founder of the Sigrid Rausing Trust, one of the United Kingdom's largest philanthropic foundations, and owner of ''Granta ...
.
Granta Books
In 1989, then-editor Buford founded Granta Books. Granta's stated aim for its book publishing imprint is to publish work that "stimulates, inspires, addresses difficult questions, and examines intriguing periods of history." Owner Sigrid Rausing has been vocal about her goal to maintain these standards for both the magazine and the book imprint, telling the ''Financial Times
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'', " 'Granta''will not publish any books that could not potentially be extracted in the magazine. We use the magazine as a yardstick for our books.... We are no longer going to look at what sells as a sort of argument, because it seemed to me that we were in danger of losing our inventiveness about what we wanted to do." Authors recently published by Granta Books include Michael Collins Michael Collins or Mike Collins most commonly refers to:
* Michael Collins (Irish leader) (1890–1922), Irish revolutionary leader, soldier, and politician
* Michael Collins (astronaut) (1930–2021), American astronaut, member of Apollo 11 and Ge ...
, Simon Gray
Simon James Holliday Gray (21 October 1936 – 7 August 2008) was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years. While teaching at Q ...
, Anna Funder
Anna Funder (born 1966) is an Australian author. She is the author of ''Stasiland'' and '' All That I Am'' and the novella ''The Girl With the Dogs''.
Life
Funder went to primary school in Melbourne and Paris; she attended Star of the Sea Coll ...
, Tim Guest
Tim Guest (16 July 1975 – 31 July 2009) (also known as Yogesh and Errol Mysterio) was an English author and journalist.
Early childhood
When he was four, Guest was left in the UK by his psychologist mother, Anne Geraghty, who went to India an ...
, Caspar Henderson, Louise Stern and Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland; in 2019, she was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize ...
.
When Rausing purchased ''Granta'', she brought with her the publishing imprint Portobello Books. Granta Books and Portobello Books are distributed by The Book Service
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by Germ ...
in the UK. Granta Books are distributed by Ingram Publisher Services
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Shawn Morin is CEO, and John R. Ingram is chairman of Ingram Industries.
History
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in the US.
''Granta'' Best of Young British Novelists
In 1983, ''Granta ''(issue #7) published a list of 20 young British novelists as names to watch out for in the future. Since then, the magazine has repeated its recognition of emerging writers in 1993 (issue #43), 2003 (issue #81) and 2013 (issue #123). In 1996 (issue #54), ''Granta'' published a similar list of promising young American novelists, which was repeated during 2007 (issue #97). In 2010 ''Granta'' issue #113 was devoted to the best young Spanish-language novelists. Many of the selections have been prescient. At least 12 of those identified have subsequently either won or been short-listed for major literary awards such as the Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize
The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland. Originally named the Whitbread Book Awards from 1971 to 2005 after its first sponsor, the Whitbread company, then ...
.
The recognition of Adam Thirlwell
Adam Thirlwell (born 22 August 1978) is a British novelist. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He has twice been named as one of ''Granta''s Best of Young British Novelists. In 2015 he received the E.M. Forster Award from the Am ...
and Monica Ali
Monica Ali FRSL (born 20 October 1967) is a British writer of Bangladeshi and English heritage. In 2003, she was selected as one of the "Best of Young British Novelists" by ''Granta'' magazine based on her unpublished manuscript; her debut nove ...
on the 2003 list was controversial, as neither had yet published a novel. Thirlwell's debut novel
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, ''Politics
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'', later met with mixed reviews. Ali's '' Brick Lane'' was widely praised. Those controversially excluded in 2003 included Giles Foden
Giles Foden (born 11 January 1967)George Stade and Karen Karbiener (eds), ''Encyclopaedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present'', 2nd edn, Infobase Publishing, 2010, p. 176. is an English author, best known for his novel ''The Last King of S ...
, Alex Garland
Alexander Medawar Garland (born 26 May 1970) is an English writer and filmmaker. He rose to prominence as a novelist in the late 1990s with his novel '' The Beach'', which led some critics to call Garland a key voice of Generation X. He subsequ ...
, Niall Griffiths
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, Zoë Heller
Zoë Kate Hinde Heller (born 7 July 1965) is an English journalist and novelist long resident in New York City. She has published three novels, ''Everything You Know'' (1999), '' Notes on a Scandal'' (2003), and '' The Believers'' (2008). ''Notes ...
, Tobias Hill
Tobias Hill (born 30 March 1970 in London, England) is a British poet, essayist, writer of short stories and novelist.
Life
Tobias Hill was born in Kentish Town, in North London, to parents of German Jewish and English extraction: his maternal ...
, Jon McGregor
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(who won the International Dublin Literary Award
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less than ten years later), Patrick Neate
Patrick Neate (born 1970) is a British novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and podcaster.
Early life
Born and raised as a Roman Catholic in South London, he was educated at St. Paul's School and Cambridge University. He spent a gap year i ...
, Maggie O'Farrell
Maggie O'Farrell, RSL (born 27 May 1972), is a novelist from Northern Ireland. Her acclaimed first novel, '' After You'd Gone'', won the Betty Trask Award, and a later one, '' The Hand That First Held Mine'', the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She ha ...
and Rebecca Smith.
Dan Rhodes
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contacted others on the 2003 list to try to persuade them to make a joint statement in protest against the Iraq War
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, which was gaining momentum at the time. Not all the writers responded. Rhodes was so disappointed he considered stopping writing, but has continued.3am Interview: "A SMALL BUT SATISFYING KICK IN BLAIR'S NUTS: AN INTERVIEW WITH DAN RHODES"
''3 AM Magazine'', July 2003, accessed 14 March 2013.
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Martin Amis
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William Boyd
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Maggie Gee
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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He is one of the most cr ...
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Adam Mars-Jones
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Salman Rushdie
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Julian Barnes
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Ursula Bentley
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Pat Barker
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Buchi Emecheta
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Ian McEwan
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Shiva Naipaul
Shiva Naipaul (; 25 February 1945 – 13 August 1985), born Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, was an Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian, Indo-Trinidadian and British novelist and journalist.
Life and work
Shiva Na ...
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Graham Swift
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Rose Tremain
Dame Rose Tremain (born 2 August 1943) is an English novelist, short story writer, and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia.
Life
Rose Tremain was born Rosemary Jane Thomson on 2 August 1943 in London to Viola Mabel Thomson and ...
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Clive Sinclair
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Alan Judd
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Philip Norman
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A. N. Wilson
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Christopher Priest
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Lisa St Aubin de Terán
1993
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro ( ; born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to Britain in 1960 with his parents when he was five.
He is one of the most cr ...
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Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi (born 5 December 1954) is a British playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and novelist of South Asian and English descent. In 2008, ''The Times'' included Kureishi in its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
Early l ...
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Ben Okri
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Esther Freud
Esther Freud (born 2 May 1963) is a British novelist.
Early life and training
Born in London, Freud is the daughter of Bernardine Coverley and painter Lucian Freud. She is also a great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud and niece of Clement Freud. ...
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Caryl Phillips
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Will Self
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Iain Banks
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Adam Lively
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Helen Simpson
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Tibor Fischer
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Nicholas Shakespeare
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Biography
Born in Worcester, England to diplomat ...
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Philip Kerr
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Early life
Kerr was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where his father was an enginee ...
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Lawrence Norfolk
Lawrence Norfolk (born 1963) is a British novelist known for historical works with complex plots and intricate detail.
Biography
Though born in London, Norfolk lived in Iraq until 1967 and then in the West Country of England. He read Engli ...
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Louis de Bernières
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A. L. Kennedy
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Alan Hollinghurst
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Early life and education
H ...
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Candia McWilliam
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Anne Billson Anne Billson (born 1954) is a writer, photographer, and film critic who was born in Southport, England. Her fiction is characterized by the combination of horror with satire and includes the novels ''Suckers'' (1993), ''Stiff Lips'' (1997), ''The Ex ...
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Adam Mars-Jones
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Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson (born 27 August 1959) is an English writer. Her first book, '' Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit'', was a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against convention. Other novels explore gender pola ...
2003
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Monica Ali
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Nicola Barker
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She was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. When she was still young her parents left England and settled in South Africa.
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Typically she writes about ...
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Rachel Cusk
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Childhood and education
Cusk was born in Saskatoon to British parents in 1967, the second of four children with an older sister and two younger brothers, and spent much of h ...
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Peter Ho Davies
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Biography
Born and raised in Coventry, Davies was a pupil at King Henry VIII School. He studied physics at Manchester University and then En ...
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Susan Elderkin
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Philip Hensher
Philip Michael Hensher FRSL (born 20 February 1965) is an English novelist, critic and journalist.
Biography
Son of Raymond J. and Miriam Hensher, his father a bank manager and composer and his mother a university librarian, Hensher was born in ...
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A. L. Kennedy
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Hari Kunzru
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Toby Litt
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Life
Litt was born in Ampthill in 1968. He was educated at Bedford Modern School, read English at Worcester College, Ox ...
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David Mitchell
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Andrew O'Hagan
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His most recent novel is ''Mayf ...
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David Peace
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Dan Rhodes
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Ben Rice
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Rachel Seiffert
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Biography
She was born in 1971 in Oxford to German and Australian parents, and was brought up bilingually. She lives in London.
Publications and awards
Seiffert has p ...
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Zadie Smith
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Adam Thirlwell
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Alan Warner
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Sarah Waters
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Robert McLiam Wilson
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He was born in the New Lodge, Belfast, New Lodge district of Belfast and then moved to Turf Lodge and other places in ...
2013
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Naomi Alderman
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Biography
Alderman was born in London, the daught ...
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Tahmima Anam
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Ned Beauman
Ned Beauman (born 1985) is a British novelist, journalist and screenwriter. The author of five novels, he was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists by ''Granta'' magazine in 2013.
Biography
Born in London, Beauman is the son of ...
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Jenni Fagan
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Adam Foulds
Adam Samuel James Foulds FRSL ( ; born 8 October 1974) is a British novelist and poet.
Biography
Foulds was educated at Bancroft's School, read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford under Craig Raine, and graduated with an MA in creative ...
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Xiaolu Guo
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Guo has directed a do ...
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Sarah Hall
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Steven Hall
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Joanna Kavenna
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Benjamin Markovits
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Nadifa Mohamed
Nadifa Mohamed ( so, Nadiifa Maxamed, ar, نظيفة محمد) (born 1981) is a Somali-British novelist. She featured on ''Granta'' magazine's list "Best of Young British Novelists" in 2013, and in 2014 on the Africa39 list of writers aged u ...
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Helen Oyeyemi
Helen Oyeyemi FRSL (born 10 December 1984) is a British novelist and writer of short stories.
Life
Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria and was raised in Lewisham, South London from when she was four. Oyeyemi wrote her first novel, '' The Icarus Girl ...
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Sunjeev Sahota
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Taiye Selasi
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Zadie Smith
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Adam Thirlwell
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Robert O'Connor
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Maile Meloy
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Jess Row
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Karen Russell
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Akhil Sharma
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Esmé Weijun Wang
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Andrés Barba
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Oliverio Coelho
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Sonia Hernández
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Alberto Olmos
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Pola Oloixarac
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Carlos Yushimito
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Alejandro Zambra
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Andrea Abreu
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José Adiak Montoya
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David Aliaga
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Carlos Manuel Álvarez
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José Ardila
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Gonzalo Baz
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Miluska Benavides
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Martín Felipe Castagnet
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Andrea Chapela
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Camila Fabbri
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Paulina Flores
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Carlos Fonseca
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Mateo García Elizondo
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Aura García-Junco
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Munir Hachemi
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Dainerys Machado Vento
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Estanislao Medina Huesca
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Alejandro Morellón
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Michel Nieva
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Mónica Ojeda
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Eudris Planche Savón
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Irene Reyes-Noguerol
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Aniela Rodríguez
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Diego Zúñiga
''Granta'' Best of Young Brazilian Novelists
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Carol Bensimon
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João Paulo Cuenca
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Laura Edler
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Emilio Fraia
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Julian Fuks
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Daniel Galera
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Luisa Geisler
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Michel Laub
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Leandro Sarmatz
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Antonio Xerxenesky
See also
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List of ''Granta'' issues
References
Further reading
*{{cite book , title=The Best of Granta Reportage , year=1994 , publisher=Granta Books in association with Penguin Books , isbn= 978-0-14-014071-2
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''Granta'' official websiteGranta Books official websiteFinding aid to Granta records at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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