''Granta'' is a

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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."About Granta Magazine.
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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

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T. S. Eliot Prize The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prize that was, for many years, awarded by the Poetry Book Society (UK) to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" in any particular year. The Priz ...

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

and more.

History

''Granta'' was founded in 1889 by students at

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as ''The Granta'', edited by

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(who later became a major contributor to ''

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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, the river which runs through the town, but is now used only for two of that river's

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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. In this form the magazine had a long and distinguished history. The magazine published

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of a number of writers who later became well known:

Geoffrey Gorer Geoffrey Edgar Solomon Gorer (26 March 1905 – 24 May 1985) was an English anthropologist and writer, noted for his application of psychoanalytic techniques to anthropology. Born into a non-practicing Jewish family, he was educated at Charterhou ...

, William Empson, Michael Frayn,

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 Sylvia Plath, Bertram Fletcher Robinson, John Simpson, and Stevie Smith.

Rebirth

During the 1970s the publication, faced with financial difficulties and increasing levels of student apathy, was rescued by a group of interested postgraduates, including writer and producer Jonathan Levi, journalist

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, and Peter de Bolla (now Professor of Cultural History and Aesthetics at

). In 1979, it was successfully relaunched as a magazine of "new writing", with both writers and audience drawn from the world beyond Cambridge.

(who wrote '' Among the Thugs'' originally as a project for the journal) was the editor for its first 16 years in the new incarnation. Ian Jack 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 ...

.''

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, a former deputy literary editor of ''

'', 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,

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, owner of ''

The New York Review of Books ''The New York Review of Books'' (or ''NYREV'' or ''NYRB'') is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs. Published in New York City, it is inspired by the idea that the discussion of i ...

,'' took a controlling stake in the magazine. In October 2005, control of the magazine was bought by Sigrid Rausing.

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 ''

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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

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, Simon Gray, Anna Funder, Tim Guest,

Caspar Henderson Caspar Henderson is a British writer and journalist living in Oxford, England. He writes on the subjects of energy, science, environment and human rights. Biography Henderson was educated at Westminster School and Corpus Christi College, C ...

Louise Stern Louise Stern (born 1978) is an American writer and artist, and works around ideas of language, communication and isolation. Stern grew up in an exclusively deaf community and is fourth-generation deaf on her father's side, and third-generation ...

and Olga Tokarczuk. When Rausing purchased ''Granta'', she brought with her the publishing imprint Portobello Books. Granta Books and Portobello Books are distributed by The Book Service in the UK. Granta Books are distributed by

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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

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and Whitbread Prize. 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 on the 2003 list was controversial, as neither had yet published a novel. Thirlwell's debut novel, ''

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'', later met with mixed reviews. Ali's ''

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'' 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, Niall Griffiths, Zoë Heller,

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 (who won the International Dublin Literary Award 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 and Rebecca Smith.

Dan Rhodes Dan Rhodes (born 1972) is an English writer, possibly best known for the novel '' Timoleon Vieta Come Home'' (2003), a subversion of the popular ''Lassie Come Home'' movie. He is also the author of ''Anthropology'' (2000), a collection of 101 st ...

contacted others on the 2003 list to try to persuade them to make a joint statement in protest against the

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''3 AM Magazine'', July 2003, accessed 14 March 2013.

1983

Martin Amis Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels ''Money'' (1984) and ''London Fields'' (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir ' ...

William Boyd William, Willie, Will or Bill Boyd may refer to: Academics * William Alexander Jenyns Boyd (1842–1928), Australian journalist and schoolmaster * William Boyd (educator) (1874–1962), Scottish educator * William Boyd (pathologist) (1885–1979), ...

* Maggie Gee *

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 ...

Adam Mars-Jones Adam Mars-Jones (born 26 October 1954) is a British novelist and literary and film critic. Early life and education Mars-Jones was born in London, to Sir William Mars-Jones (1915–1999), a Welsh High Court judge and a President of the Londo ...

Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and ...

Julian Barnes Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with ''The Sense of an Ending'', having been shortlisted three times previously with '' Flaubert's Parrot'', '' England, England'', and ''Art ...

Ursula Bentley Ursula Bentley (18 September 1945 - 7 April 2004) was a British writer. Early life Ursula Mary Bentley was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 18 September 1945. A couple hours after her birth her mother died of blood loss leaving her father to r ...

* Pat Barker *

Buchi Emecheta Florence Onyebuchi "Buchi" Emecheta (21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) was a Nigerian-born novelist, based in the UK from 1962, who also wrote plays and an autobiography, as well as works for children. She was the author of more than 20 books, ...

Ian McEwan Ian Russell McEwan, (born 21 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, ''The Times'' featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and ''The Daily Telegraph'' ranked him number 19 in its list of th ...

* Shiva Naipaul *

Graham Swift Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born 4 May 1949) is an English writer. Born in London, England, he was educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York. Career Some of Swift's books have been filmed ...

* Rose Tremain *

Clive Sinclair Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) was an English entrepreneur and inventor, best known for being a pioneer in the computing industry, and also as the founder of several companies that developed consumer electronic ...

* Alan Judd * Philip Norman *

A. N. Wilson Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October 1950)"A. N. Wilson"
''Encyclopædia Britannica''.

* Christopher Priest * Lisa St Aubin de Terán

1993

* Hanif Kureishi * Ben Okri *

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 Fr ...

Caryl Phillips Caryl Phillips (born 13 March 1958) is a Kittitian-British novelist, playwright and essayist. Best known for his novels (for which he has won multiple awards), Phillips is often described as a Black Atlantic writer, since much of his fictional ...

* Will Self * Iain Banks *

Adam Lively Adam Lively (born 20 January 1961) is a British novelist. He was born in Swansea and educated in England and America. His debut novel ''Blue Fruit'' was published in 1988. In 1993, he was included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelist ...

* Helen Simpson *

Tibor Fischer Tibor Fischer (born 15 November 1959) is a British novelist and short story writer. In 1993, he was selected by the literary magazine Granta as one of the 20 best young British writers while his novel '' Under the Frog'' was featured on the Book ...

Nicholas Shakespeare Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare FRSL (born 3 March 1957) is a British novelist and biographer, described by the '' Wall Street Journal'' as "one of the best English novelists of our time". Biography Born in Worcester, England to diplomat ...

* Philip Kerr * Lawrence Norfolk * Louis de Bernières *

A. L. Kennedy Alison Louise Kennedy (born 22 October 1965) is a Scottish writer, academic and stand-up comedian. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction, and is known for her dark tone and her blending of realism and fantasy. She contributes columns ...

Alan Hollinghurst Alan James Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2004 Booker Prize. Early life and education Ho ...

Candia McWilliam Candia Frances Juliet McWilliam (born 1 July 1955) is a Scottish author. Her father was the architectural writer and academic Colin McWilliam. Literary career Born in Edinburgh, McWilliam was educated at St George's School for Girls in the ...

* Anne Billson *

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 pol ...

2003

* Monica Ali *

Nicola Barker Nicola Barker (born 30 March 1966) is an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. When she was still young her parents left England and settled in South Africa. Fiction Typically she writes about ...

* Rachel Cusk * Peter Ho Davies * Susan Elderkin * Philip Hensher *

Hari Kunzru Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru (born 1969) is a British novelist and journalist. He is the author of the novels ''The Impressionist'', ''Transmission'', ''My Revolutions'', '' Gods Without Men'', ''White Tears''David Robinson"Interview: Hari Kunzru, au ...

Toby Litt Toby Litt is an English writer and academic in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. Life Litt was born in Ampthill in 1968. He was educated at Bedford Modern School, read English at Worcester College, Oxfo ...

* David Mitchell * Andrew O'Hagan * David Peace *

* Ben Rice * Rachel Seiffert * Zadie Smith *

Alan Warner Alan Warner (born 1964) is a Scottish novelist who grew up in Connel, near Oban. His notable novels include ''Morvern Callar'' and ''The Sopranos'' – the latter being the inspiration for the play '' Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour'' and its ...

* Sarah Waters * Robert McLiam Wilson

2013

* Naomi Alderman * Tahmima Anam *

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 ...

Jenni Fagan Dr Jenni Fagan (born 1977) is a Scottish novelist and poet. She has written several books including fiction novel '' The Panopticon,'' screenplays and several books of poetry. She was named Scottish writer of the year 2016 by ''The Glasgow Her ...

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 w ...

* Xiaolu Guo * Sarah Hall * Steven Hall *

Joanna Kavenna Joanna Kavenna (born 1974) is an English novelist, essayist and travel writer of Welsh extraction. Her six novels have been widely rated and appreciated. Biography Welsh by family, with Scandinavian ancestry, Kavenna was born in Leicester and ...

Benjamin Markovits Benjamin Markovits is a British-American writer. He is the author of seven novels, among them a trilogy on the life of Lord Byron. He was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists by ''Granta'' magazine in 2013. In 2016, his novel ''Y ...

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 ...

* Helen Oyeyemi * Ross Raisin *

Sunjeev Sahota Sunjeev Sahota (born 1981) is a British novelist whose first novel, ''Ours are the Streets'', was published in January 2011 and whose second novel, '' The Year of the Runaways'', was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize and was awarded a ...

Taiye Selasi Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979) is a British-American writer and photographer. Of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, she describes herself as a "local" of Accra, Berlin, New York and Rome. Early life and education Taiye Selasi was born in Lo ...

Kamila Shamsie Kamila Shamsie FRSL (born 13 August 1973) is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist who is best known for her award-winning novel ''Home Fire'' (2017). Named on ''Granta'' magazine's list of 20 best young British writers, Shamsie has been ...

* Zadie Smith *

David Szalay David Szalay (born 1974 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Hungarian/English writer. His surname is pronounced SOL-loy. Life Szalay was born in Montreal in 1974 to a Canadian mother and a Hungarian father. His family then moved to Beirut. They were fo ...

* Evie Wyld

''Granta'' Best of Young American Novelists

1996

Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane- Coeur d'Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from se ...

Madison Smartt Bell Madison Smartt Bell (born August 1, 1957, in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American novelist. While established as a writer by several early novels, he is especially known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolu ...

* Ethan Canin * Edwidge Danticat *

Tom Drury Thomas Jay Drury is an American writer. Drury was born in Iowa, in 1956, grew up in the small town of Swaledale and received his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Iowa in 1980. For the next five years, Drury worked at a ...

Tony Earley Tony Earley (born 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, but grew up in North Carolina. His stories are often set in North Carolina. Earley studied English at Warren Wilson College and after g ...

* Jeffrey Eugenides *

Jonathan Franzen Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel ''The Corrections'', a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Pri ...

David Guterson David Guterson ( ; born May 4, 1956) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist. He is best known as the author of the bestselling Japanese American internment novel ''Snow Falling on Cedars''. Early life Gute ...

* David Haynes * Allen Kurzweil * Elizabeth McCracken *

Lorrie Moore Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore; January 13, 1957) is an American writer. Biography Marie Lorena Moore was born in Glens Falls, New York, and nicknamed "Lorrie" by her parents. She attended St. Lawrence University. At 19, she won '' Seve ...

* Fae Myenne Ng * Robert O'Connor *

Chris Offutt Christopher John Offutt (born August 24, 1958) is an American writer. He is most widely known for his short stories and novels, but he has also published three memoirs and multiple nonfiction articles. In 2005, he had a story included in a comic ...

Stewart O'Nan Stewart O'Nan (born February 4, 1961) is an American novelist. Life and work Background Born on February 4, 1961, to John Lee O'Nan II and Mary Ann O'Nan (''née'' Smith), he and his brother John were raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where t ...

* Mona Simpson *

Melanie Rae Thon Melanie Rae Thon (born 1957, last name pronounced "tone") is an American fiction writer known for work that moves beyond and between genres as it explores diversity from a multitude of human and more-than-human perspectives. Biography Thon was b ...

* Kate Wheeler *

Katharine Weber Katharine Weber (born November 12, 1955) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer. She has taught fiction and nonfiction writing at Yale University, Goucher College, the Paris Writers Workshop and elsewhere. She held the Visiting Richard L. ...

2007

* Daniel Alarcón *

Kevin Brockmeier Kevin John Brockmeier (born December 6, 1972) is an American writer of fantasy and literary fiction. Life and career Brockmeier was born in Hialeah, Florida and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is a graduate of Parkview Arts and Science Magn ...

* Judy Budnitz *

Christopher Coake Christopher Coake (born November 28, 1971) is an American fiction writer. Background Coake is the author of two collections of short stories,''You Would Have Told Me Not To'' (Delphinium Books, 2020), and ''We're in Trouble'' (Harcourt, 2005), for ...

Anthony Doerr Anthony Doerr (born October 27, 1973) is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel '' All the Light We Cannot See'', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Early life and education Rai ...

Jonathan Safran Foer Jonathan Safran Foer (; born February 21, 1977) is an American novelist. He is known for his novels '' Everything Is Illuminated'' (2002), '' Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close'' (2005), '' Here I Am'' (2016), and for his non-fiction works ''Eati ...

* Nell Freudenberger * Olga Grushin *

Dara Horn Dara Horn (born 1977) is a Jewish American novelist, essayist, and professor of literature. She has written five novels and in 2021, released a nonfiction essay collection titled ''People Love Dead Jews'', which was a finalist for the 2021 Kirkus ...

Gabe Hudson Gabe Hudson (12 September 1971 — 23 November 2023) was an American writer. His novel '' Gork, the Teenage Dragon'' was released by Knopf on July 11, 2017.Uzodinma Iweala * Nicole Krauss *

Rattawut Lapcharoensap Rattawut Lapcharoensap ( th, รัฐวุฒิ ลาภเจริญทรัพย์; IPA:; born 1979) is a Thai American short story writer. He is best known for ''Sightseeing'', a collection of short stories published in 2005. The film ...

* Yiyun Li *

Maile Meloy Maile Meloy (born January 1, 1972) is an American fiction writer. Early life and education Born and raised in Helena, Montana, Meloy received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1994 and an MFA from the University of California, Irvi ...

* ZZ Packer *

Jess Row Jess Row (born 1974 in Washington, D.C.) is an American short story writer, novelist, and professor. Early life He received a B.A. in English from Yale University in 1997. He later taught English in Hong Kong for two years. He completed his Mast ...

Karen Russell Karen Russell (born July 10, 1981) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, '' Swamplandia!'', was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 2009 the National Book Foundation named Russell a 5 under 35 honor ...

* Akhil Sharma * Gary Shteyngart * John Wray

2017

Jesse Ball Jesse Ball (born June 7, 1978) is an American novelist and poet. He has published novels, volumes of poetry, short stories, and drawings. His works are distinguished by the use of a spare style and have been compared to those of Jorge Luis Borges ...

Halle Butler Halle Butler (born 1985 or 1986) is an American author. She grew up in Bloomington, Illinois and lives in Chicago. After co-writing two independent films, Butler published her first novel, ''Jillian'' in 2015. Her second novel, ''The New Me'' was r ...

Emma Cline Emma Cline is an American writer and novelist, originally from California. She published her first novel, '' The Girls'', in 2016, to positive reviews. The book was shortlisted for the John Leonard Award from the National Book Critics Circle and ...

* Joshua Cohen * Mark Doten *

Jen George Jen is a feminineSebased on U.S. Social Security Records given name, frequently a shortened form ( hypocorism) of Jennifer, and occasionally a surname. It may refer to: Given name People * Jen Adams (born 1979), Australian lacrosse coach and fo ...

Rachel B. Glaser Rachel B. Glaser is an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Early life and education Glaser was born in New Jersey. She obtained an undergraduate degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and later graduated from the ...

Lauren Groff Lauren Groff (born July 23, 1978) is an American novelist and short story writer. She has written four novels and two short story collections, including '' Fates and Furies'' (2015), ''Florida'' (2018), and ''Matrix'' (2021). Early life and educ ...

* Yaa Gyasi *

Garth Risk Hallberg Garth Risk Hallberg (born November 1978) is an American author. His debut novel is '' City on Fire''.Brian Appleyard, "Manhattan Project", ''The Age'', "Good Weekend", pp. 20-22 Hallberg was born outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana and grew up in Gre ...

* Greg Jackson *

Sana Krasikov Sana Krasikov (born Ukraine) is a writer living in the United States. She grew up in the Republic of Georgia, as well as the United States. She graduated from Cornell University in 2001 where she lived at the Telluride House, and from the Iowa Wr ...

* Catherine Lacey * Ben Lerner *

Karan Mahajan Karan Mahajan (born April 24, 1984) is an Indian-American novelist, essayist, and critic. His second novel, '' The Association of Small Bombs,'' was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. He has contributed writing to '' The Be ...

* Anthony Marra *

Dinaw Mengestu Dinaw Mengestu (ዲናው መንግስቱ) (born 30 June 1978) is an Ethiopian-American novelist and writer. In addition to three novels, he has written for ''Rolling Stone'' on the war in Darfur, and for '' Jane Magazine'' on the conflict in nor ...

* Ottessa Moshfegh * Chinelo Okparanta *

Esmé Weijun Wang Esmé Weijun Wang is an American writer. She is the author of ''The Border of Paradise'' (2016) and '' The Collected Schizophrenias'' (2019). She is the recipient of a Whiting Award and in 2017, ''Granta'' Magazine named her to its decennial list ...

* Claire Vaye Watkins

''Granta'' Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists

2010

Andrés Barba Andrés Barba (Madrid, 1975) is a Spanish writer and translator graduated in Hispanic Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid, with a degree in Philosophy. He has taught at Bowdoin College, the Complutense University of Madrid and Pr ...

Oliverio Coelho Oliverio Coelho (born 1977) is an Argentine writer and critic. He was born in Buenos Aires. He has authored several novels and short story collections, among them: * Tierra de vigilia (2000), * Los invertebrables (2003), * Borneo (2004), * P ...

Federico Falco Federico Falco is an Argentine writer born in 1977. He holds a BA in communications from Blas Pascal University in Argentina and an MFA in creative writing in Spanish from New York University. In 2004, he was given the Young Writers Award by the S ...

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Sonia Hernández Sònia Hernández (born 1976) is a Spanish writer. She was born in Tarrasa in the province of Barcelona. She published her first book of poems ''La casa del mar'' in 2006, followed by ''Los nombres del tiempo'' in 2010. Her fiction includes the s ...

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Matías Néspolo Matías Néspolo (born 1975) is an Argentine writer and journalist. He was born in Buenos Aires, and studied literature at university. He wrote and published in a variety of genres: poetry, essays, novels, short stories, etc. In 2005, he publishe ...

Andrés Neuman Andrés Neuman (born January 28, 1977) is a Spanish-Argentine writer, poet, translator, columnist and blogger. The son of Argentine émigré musicians, he was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a mother of French and Spanish descent and a fathe ...

Alberto Olmos Alberto Olmos (born 1975) is a Spanish writer. Born in Segovia, he studied journalism. He published a total of eight novels to date; his debut novel ''A bordo del naufragio'' was nominated for the Premio Herralde. Other notable works include ''T ...

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Patricio Pron Patricio Pron (born December 9, 1975) is an Argentine literary writer and critic translated into half a dozen languages including English, German, French and Italian. Granta magazine selected him in 2010 as one of the 22 best young writers in Casti ...

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Andrea Abreu Andrea Abreu (born 1995) is a Spanish writer. She was born in Tenerife. She published the poetry collection ''Mujer sin párpados'' in 2017, and the fanzine ''Primavera que sangra'' in 2020. Also in 2020, her debut novel ''Panza de burro'' was pub ...

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Alejandro Morellón Alejandro Morellón (born 1985) is a Spanish writer. He was born in Madrid, and raised in Palma de Mallorca. His books include: * ''La noche en que caemos'' (winner of the 2013 MonteLeón Foundation Award) * ''El estado natural de las cosas'' ( ...

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''Granta'' Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists

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''Granta'' Best of Young Brazilian Novelists

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