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Granta
''Granta'' is a literary magazine 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." In 2007, '' The Observer'' 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'' has regularly won such prizes as the Forward Prize, T. S. Eliot Prize, Pushcart Prize and more. History ''Granta'' was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as ''The Granta'', edited by R. C. Lehmann (who later became a major contributor to '' Punch''). It was started as a periodical featuring student politics, badinage and literary efforts. The title was taken from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Jack
Ian Grant Jack FRSL (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 Farnworth, Lancashire, on 7 February 1945, to parents who had migrated from Fife in 1930. Jack's mother, Isabella (née Gillespie), was born in Kirkcaldy and brought up in Hill of Beath, and his father Henry was born in Dunfermline. The family returned to Scotland when he was seven years old, in 1952. He grew up in North Queensferry and was educated there and at Dunfermline High School. Career After a false start as a would-be librarian, Jack joined ''The Glasgow Herald'' as a trainee journalist in 1965. After a short spell in its head office he was sent to work on two weekly papers in Lanarkshire, the now-defunct ''Cambuslang Advertiser'' and the '' East Kilbride News''. Later he worked for the '' Scottish Daily Express'' at its Gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Granta
The River Granta is the name of two of the four tributaries of the River Cam, although both names are often used synonymously. The Granta starts near the village of Widdington in Essex, flowing north past Audley End House to merge with the other contributary Rhee, which is also commonly called River Cam, a mile south of Grantchester. From source to its confluence with the Rhee it is in length. A further tributary, also known as the Granta, runs from south of Haverhill to join the larger Granta south of Great Shelford. Another minor tributary is Bourn Brook which has its source near the village of Eltisley, west of Cambridge, running east through Caxton, Bourn and Toft to join the Cam at Byron's Pool. In many maps the river changes its name at the Silver Street Bridge in Cambridge and is called "Granta" above and "Cam" below it. In earlier times even the lower part of the Cam was also named the Granta, but after the name of the Anglo-Saxon town of Grantebrycge had b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigrid Rausing
Sigrid Maria Elisabet Rausing FRSL (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'' magazine and Granta Books. Early life Sigrid Rausing is the daughter of Swedish businessman Hans Rausing and his wife Märit Rausing. She has one sister, Lisbet Rausing and one brother, Hans Kristian Rausing. Her grandfather Ruben Rausing was co-founder of the Swedish packaging company Tetra Pak. Rausing grew up in Lund, Sweden, and studied History at the University of York between 1983 and 1986. She earned an MSc in Social Anthropology from University College London in 1987, then continued with a PhD focusing on post-Soviet anthropology, and did her fieldwork on a collective farm in Estonia, in 1993–94. In 1997, she was awarded a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Department of Social Anthropology at University College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Cam
The River Cam () is the main river flowing through Cambridge in eastern England. After leaving Cambridge, it flows north and east before joining the River Great Ouse to the south of Ely, Cambridgeshire, Ely, at Pope's Corner. The total distance from Cambridge to the sea is about and is navigable for punts, small boats, and rowing craft. The Great Ouse also connects to Canals of the United Kingdom, England's canal system via the Middle Level Navigations and the River Nene. In total, the Cam runs for around from its furthest source (near Debden, Uttlesford, Debden in Essex) to its confluence with the Great Ouse. Name The original name of the river was the ''Granta'' and (unusually) its present name derives from the city of Cambridge () rather than the other way around: After the city's present name developed in Middle English, the river's name was back formation, backformed to match. This was not universally applied, however, and the upper stretch of the river continues to be i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Freeman (author)
John Freeman (born 1974) is an American writer and a literary critic. He was the editor of the literary magazine ''Granta'' from 2009 until 2013, the former president of the National Book Critics Circle, and his writing has appeared in almost 200 English-language publications around the world, including ''The New York Times Book Review'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Guardian'', and ''The Wall Street Journal''. He is currently an executive editor at the publishing house Knopf. Early life John Freeman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, grew up in New York, Pennsylvania and California, and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1996. Career Freeman's first book, ''The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand Year Journey to Your Inbox'', was published in 2009. (It was published in Australia under the title ''Shrinking the World: The 4,000-year story of how email came to rule our lives''.) Freeman's second book, a collection of his interviews with major contemporary writers titled ''How to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Rayner
Richard Rayner (born 15 December 1955) is a British author who now lives in Los Angeles. Early life He was born on 15 December 1955 in the northern city of Bradford. Rayner attended schools in Yorkshire and Rydal School in Wales before studying philosophy and law at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He has worked as an editor at '' Time Out'' Magazine, in London, and later on the literary magazine ''Granta'', then based in Cambridge. First book Rayner is the author of nine books. His first, ''Los Angeles Without A Map'', was published in 1988. Part-fiction, part-travelogue, this was turned into a movie '' L.A. Without a Map'' (for which Rayner co-wrote the screenplay with director Mika Kaurismäki) starring David Tennant, Vinessa Shaw, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo, and, in an uncredited part, Johnny Depp. 1996–present In 1996, Rayner published ''The Blue Suit'', a memoir about his early life that won an Esquire Non-Fiction Award in the UK, and was described as 'a beguiling portrait ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Buford
William Holmes Buford (born 6 October 1954) is an American author and journalist. He 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 Tuscany''. Buford was previously the fiction editor for ''The New Yorker'', where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of ''Granta'', which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term " dirty realism." Early years Buford was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and raised in Southern California, attending the University of California, Berkeley, from 1973 to 1977. He then received a Marshall Scholarship to read English at King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA in 1979. He remained in England for most of the 1980s. Work As an author '' Among the Thugs'' (1990) is presented as an insider's account of the world of (primarily) English football hooliganism. ''Heat'' (2006) is B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 prizes do this by identifying and honouring talent: collections published in the UK and Ireland over the course of the previous year are eligible, as are single poems nominated by journal editors or prize organisers. Each year, works shortlisted for the prizes – plus those highly commended by the judges – are collected in the ''Forward Book of Poetry''. The awards have been sponsored since their inception by the content marketing agency Bookmark, formerly Forward Worldwide. The best first collection prize is sponsored by the estate of Felix Dennis. The Forward Prizes for Poetry celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2021. For the 2023 prizes, a new category for outstanding performance of a poem was added to the list of awards. Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Clark (journalist)
Alex Clark is a British literary journalist and editor who has written for ''The Guardian'', ''The Observer'' and ''The Times Literary Supplement''. She also presents the programme '' Front Row'' on BBC Radio 4 and hosts the Vintage Podcast about books. Clark is Editor at Large at Union Books. Having previously served as deputy editor, she was appointed as the first female editor of ''Granta'' magazine in May 2008, in succession to Jason Cowley. Clark assumed the post in the following September, but left in May 2009. She was succeeded by John Freeman. Literary judge Clark was a member of the panel of judges for ''Granta''s Best of Young British Novelists 2003. She has judged many other literary prizes, including the 2008 Man Booker Prize The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertram Fletcher Robinson
Bertram Fletcher Robinson (22 August 1870 – 21 January 1907) was an English sportsperson, sportsman, journalist, editor, author and Liberal Unionist Party activist. During his life-time, he wrote at least three hundred items, including a series of Short story, short stories that feature a detective called 'Addington Peace'. Following his untimely death at the age of just 36 years, speculation grew that Robinson was the victim of a curse bestowed upon him by an Ancient Egypt, Egyptian Antiquities, antiquity at the British Museum, which he had researched whilst working as a journalist for a British newspaper. However, Robinson is perhaps best remembered for his literary collaborations with his friends and fellow Crimes Club members, Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse and Max Pemberton. Early life Family Bertram Fletcher Robinson (Pseudonym, Aka 'Bobbles' or 'Bertie') was born on 22 August 1870 at 80 Rose Lane, Mossley Hill in Liverpool. During 1882, he relocated with his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Cowley (journalist)
Jason Cowley (born 19 June 1965) is a journalist, magazine editor and writer. He was editor of the ''New Statesman'' from 2008 until 2024. Prior to this, he has been editor of ''Granta'' (2007-2008), editor of the '' Observer Sport Monthly'' magazine (2003-2007), literary editor of the ''New Statesma''n (1998-2002), and a staff writer on ''The Times'' (1996-1998). In 2024 he joined The Sunday Times as a commentator, features writer and book reviewer. Early life and education Jason Cowley was born on 19 June 1965 in Harlow, Essex, where he was brought up. His parents were Anthony Cowley and Lilian Cowley. He was educated at Latton Bush School, a former state comprehensive school in Harlow, followed by the University of Southampton, from which he graduated in 1989 with a first-class degree in English and philosophy. Early career In the early 1990s, Cowley began publishing reviews, literary essays and articles in British newspapers and magazines, including writing for '' The Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Levi
Jonathan Levi (born 1955, in New York City, United States) 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, where he revived the literary magazine ''Granta ''Granta'' is a literary magazine 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 ...'' with Bill Buford and Pete de Bolla, and served as U.S. Editor until 1987. After leaving ''Granta'', Levi created the program "New Opera for New Ears" for the Metropolitan Opera Guild, producing Carly Simon's opera, ''Romulus Hunt: A Family Opera, Romulus Hunt'' (1991), directed by Francesca Zambello at the Metropolitan Opera Guild and the Kennedy Center. Levi’s 1992 book, ''A Guide for the Perplexed'' is a novel in the form of a traveler’s gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
