''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."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'' has regularly won such prizes as the

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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 '' Punch''). It was started as a periodical featuring student politics, badinage and literary efforts. The title was taken from the

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 ot ...

, the medieval name for the

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, the river that runs through the city but is now used only for that river's upper reaches. An early editor of the magazine was

R. P. Keigwin Richard Prescott Keigwin ( ; 8 April 1883 – 26 November 1972) was an English schoolmaster, sportsman, translator, and author. He played first-class cricket for University of Cambridge, Cambridge University, the Marylebone Cricket Club, Essex ...

, the English cricketer and Danish scholar; in 1912–13, the editor was 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 R ...

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

juvenilia Juvenilia are literary, musical or artistic works produced by authors during their youth. Written juvenilia, if published at all, usually appear as retrospective publications, some time after the author has become well known for later works. Bac ...

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. Biography Born into a non-practising Jewish family, Gorer was educated ...

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 firs ...

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 (play), Copenhagen'' and ''Democracy (play), Democracy''. Frayn's novel ...

Ted Hughes Edward James 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 writers. He wa ...

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 children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-th ...

Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for '' The Colossus and Other Poems'' (1960), '' Ariel'' (1965), a ...

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 ser ...

, John Simpson, and

Stevie Smith Florence Margaret Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971), known as Stevie Smith, 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, bas ...

Rebirth

During the 1970s, the publication faced financial difficulties and increasing levels of student apathy, and was rescued by a group of interested

postgraduates Postgraduate education, graduate education, or graduate school consists of academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications usually pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate (bachelor' ...

, including writer and producer

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 revive ...

, journalist

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 ...

, 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. The magazine's first issue as a national publication was entitled "New American Writing".

(who wrote ''

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'' originally as a project for the journal) was the editor for its first 16 years in the new incarnation. During this time, the staff included

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 ...

and the novelist

Carole Morin Carole Morin is a Glasgow-born novelist who lives in Soho, London. She has had five novels published: ''Lampshades'', ''Penniless in Park Lane'', ''Dead Glamorous'', ''Spying on Strange Men'' and ''Fleshworld''. Morin's fiction is critically ac ...

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 ...

succeeded Buford, editing ''Granta'' from 1995 until 2007. Since 2003, ''Granta'' has been published in Spain in Spanish. 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 after having been selected as editor of the ''

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''.

Alex Clark Alex Clark may refer to: * Alex Clark (baseball), American baseball player * Alex Clark (journalist), British literary journalist * Alex Clark (politician) (1916–1991), American politician * Alex Clark (squash player) (born 1987), Scottish squash ...

, 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. , ''Granta''s circulation is 23,000. In the 164th issue Sigrid Rausing, who had served as editor since 2013, announced she would turn over editorship to Thomas Meaney with the Autumn issue of 2023.

Ownership

In 1994, Rea Hederman, owner of ''

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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 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 ''G ...

. Rausing established the Granta Trust in 2019 as the owner of the magazine.

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

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 Academia, university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years. While teach ...

Anna Funder Anna Funder (born 1966) is an Australian author. She is the author of ''Stasiland'', ''All That I Am (novel), All That I Am'', ''Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life'' and the novella ''The Girl With the Dogs.'' Anna’s book ''Wifedom'' w ...

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

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 d ...

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 Pri ...

. When Rausing purchased ''Granta'', she brought with her the publishing imprint Portobello Books, founded in 2005; as of January 2019 the Portobello Books imprint was closed, with all its contracted authors therefter published under the Granta Books imprint. Granta Books are distributed by

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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

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. 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 A ...

and

Monica Ali Monica Ali (; born 20 October 1967) is a British writer of Bangladeshi and English descent. In 2003, she was selected as one of the "Best of Young British Novelists" by ''Granta'' based on her unpublished manuscript; her debut novel, ''Brick L ...

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

debut novel A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to pu ...

, ''

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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 ...

Alex Garland Alexander Medawar Garland (born 26 May 1970) is an English author, screenwriter, and director. He rose to prominence with his novel '' The Beach'' (1996). He received praise for writing the Danny Boyle films '' 28 Days Later'' (2002) and '' Sun ...

Niall Griffiths Niall Griffiths (born 1966) is an English author of novels and short stories, set predominantly in Wales. His works include the novels ''Grits'' and ''Sheepshagger'', travel guides to Aberystwyth and Liverpool, and a book of poetry. He has won t ...

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 (novel), The Believ ...

Tobias Hill Tobias Fleet Hill (30 March 1970 – 26 August 2023) was 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; Hill iden ...

Jon McGregor Jon McGregor (born 1976) is a British novelist and short story writer. In 2002, his debut novel, first novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize, making him then the youngest-ever contender. His second and fourth novels were longlisted for the ...

(who won the

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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 has ...

and Rebecca Smith.

Dan Rhodes Dan Rhodes (born 1972) is an English writer 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 stories, each co ...

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

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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. In 2023, the list for the first time included international writers who view the UK as their home.

Ageism controversy

As with other bodies giving awards to younger writers, ''Granta'' has been accused of contributing to

ageism Ageism, also called agism in American English, is a type of discrimination based on one's age, generally used to refer to age-based discrimination against Old age, elderly people. The term was coined in 1969 by Robert Neil Butler to describe this ...

in the publishing industry by promoting an age-restricted list. Writing in

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complained about the ageism of the ''Granta'' list, as well as its predictability. Writing in

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...

Joanna Walsh Life Joanna Walsh is a multidisciplinary writer, editor and artist. She lives in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. She is currently an MSCA postdoctoral fellow at NUI Maynooth. Works and reviews Her books include * ''Fractals'' (2013), * ''Ve ...

argues that age-restricted awards also unfairly discriminate against women, people of colour, LGBTQ people, and other groups that might come late to writing. Writing in the

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, she queried the arbritrariness of the age limits, noting that ''Grantas sister publication in the Spanish-speaking world sets an age limit of 35 for the same award. She also noted that age restriction of this sort is legislated against in employment. David Cutler of the Baring Foundation is among those who pointed out that the

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abolished its age limit in 2017, six years before the latest ''Granta'' list. Writers selected for the list have also complained about its discrimination.

Yara Rodrigues Fowler Yara Rodrigues Fowler is a British novelist of Brazilian origin. She was nominated for the ''Sunday Times'' Young Writer of the Year award, and she was also named by the ''Financial Times'' as one of the "most exciting young people”. In 2023, ...

tweeted that “Age cut offs are discriminatory to women, carers, disabled + working class ppl” and make for "a more boring and homogenous literature".

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 ...

has said that he "regards such age-related line-ups as artificial and particularly unfair to women".

1983

Martin Amis Sir Martin Louis Amis (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels ''Money'' (1984) and '' London Fields'' (1989). He received the James Tait Black Mem ...

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* Ursula Bentley *

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* Maggie Gee *

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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 Sheila Cobon (1923–199 ...

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* Philip Norman * Christopher Priest *

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

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 electronics ...

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

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* Lisa St Aubin de Terán * A. N. Wilson

1993

Iain Banks Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, adding the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies (). After the success of '' The Wasp Fact ...

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 E ...

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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 th ...

Esther Freud Esther Freud is a British novelist, known for her autobiographical novel '' Hideous Kinky'' (1992). She is the daughter of the painter Lucian Freud. Early life and education Born in London in 1963, Freud is the daughter of Bernardine Coverle ...

Alan Hollinghurst Sir Alan James Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award and the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2004, he won the Booker Prize for his novel ...

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Hanif Kureishi Hanif Kureishi (born 5 December 1954) is a British Pakistani playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, and novelist. He is known for his film '' My Beautiful Laundrette'' and novel '' The Buddha of Suburbia''. Early life and education Hanif Kureish ...

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 Novelists l ...

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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". Shakespeare is also known for his charity work. B ...

* Helen Simpson *

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2003

Nicola Barker Nicola Barker (born 30 March 1966) is an English novelist and short story writer. Early life and education Barker was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England on 30 March 1966. While still young, her parents left England and settled in South Africa ...

Rachel Cusk Rachel Cusk FRSL (born 8 February 1967) is a British novelist and writer. 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 muc ...

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* Susan Elderkin *

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Toby Litt Toby Litt (born 1968) is an English writer and academic based at the University of Southampton. Life Litt was born in Ampthill, England, in 1968. He was educated at Bedford Modern School, read English at Worcester College, Oxford and studied C ...

* David Mitchell *

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* Ben Rice *

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* Alan Warner *

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* Robert McLiam Wilson

2013

Naomi Alderman Naomi Alderman (born 1974) is an English novelist, Game design, game writer, and television executive producer. She is best known for her speculative science fiction novel ''The Power (Alderman novel), The Power'', which won the Women's Prize f ...

Tahmima Anam Tahmima Anam (; born 8 October 1975) is a Bangladeshi-born British writer, novelist and columnist. Her first novel, '' A Golden Age'' (2007), was the Best First Book winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prizes. Her follow-up novel, '' The Go ...

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 FRSL (born 1977) is a Scottish novelist and poet. She has published four fiction books including novel '' The Panopticon,'' screenplays, eight books of poetry and a memoir, ''Ootlin''. She was named Scottish writer of the year 2 ...

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 Xiaolu Guo (; born 20 November 1973) is a Chinese-born British author, filmmaker and academic. Her writing and films explore migration, social alienation, alienation, memory, personal journeys, feminism, translation and transnational identitie ...

* Sarah Hall * Steven Hall *

Joanna Kavenna Joanna Kavenna (born 1974) is a British novelist, essayist and travel writer. She won the Orange Award for New Writers for her novel ''Inglorious''. She has also been longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Orange Prize and shortlis ...

Benjamin Markovits Benjamin Markovits is a British-American writer. He is the author of twelve 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 '' ...

Nadifa Mohamed Nadifa Mohamed (, ) (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 under 40 with potential and talent to define ...

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' ...

Ross Raisin Ross Raisin FRSL (born 1979) is a British novelist and short story writer."Ross Raisin"
Royal Society of Liter ...

* Sunjeev Sahota *

Taiye Selasi Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979 in London, England) is an United States, American writer and photographer. Of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, she describes herself as a "local" of Accra, Berlin, New York City, New York and Rome. In 2005, Selasi ...

Kamila Shamsie Kamila Shamsie (; 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 d ...

David Szalay David Szalay (; born 1974 in Montreal, Canada) is a Hungarian-English writer. Life Szalay was born in Montreal in 1974 to a Canadian mother and a Hungarian father. His family then moved to Beirut. They were forced to leave Lebanon after the o ...

Evie Wyld Evelyn Rose Strange "Evie" Wyld (born 1980) is an English author. Several of her novels are set in Australia, where she spent holidays with her grandparents as a child, and she has won several Australian literary awards. Her first novel, '' Aft ...

2023

* Graeme Armstrong *

Jennifer Atkins Jennifer Atkins is a British writer. She was born in London. Her previous occupations include bookseller and script reader. Atkins published her debut novel ''The Cellist'' in 2022. Her work has appeared in '' The White Review'', and she has writ ...

Sara Baume Sara Baume (born 1984) is an Irish novelist. She was named on ''Grantas Best of Young British Novelists list in 2023. Biography Her father is of English descent while her mother is of Irish descent. As her parents travelled around in a cara ...

* Sarah Bernstein * Natasha Brown *

Eleanor Catton Eleanor Catton (born 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and grew up in Christchurch. She completed a master's degree in creative writing at the International Institute of M ...

Lauren Aimee Curtis Lauren Aimee Curtis is an Australian writer. She was born in Sydney in 1988. She is best known for her debut novel ''Dolores'' which was nominated for several literary prizes. It was also named a ''New Statesman'' Book of the Year. Her second book, ...

* Eliza Clark * Tom Crewe * Camilla Grudova *

Isabella Hammad Isabella Mariam S. Hammad (born 1990/91) is a British-Palestinian author. In 2023, she was included on the ''Granta'' Best of Young British Novelists list. Biography Hammad grew up in Acton, West London. Her Palestinian father, whose family w ...

* Sophie Mackintosh *

Anna Metcalfe Anna Metcalfe is a British writer. She was born in Germany and studied literature at the University of York. She continued her postgraduate studies at the University of East Anglia, receiving a PhD in creative and critical writing. She now teaches ...

* Thomas Morris * Derek Owusu *

K Patrick K Patrick is a Scottish poet, novelist and short story writer. Patrick has been shortlisted for the White Review Prize for both poetry and short fiction, and for the BBC National Short Story Award. Their debut novel was published in 2023 and t ...

* Saba Sams *

Olivia Sudjic Olivia Katarina Sudjic (born 1988/1989) is a British fiction writer whose first book, ''Sympathy'', received positive reviews in the press, from publications such as ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'' and ''The New Republic''. In 2023, she ...

Eley Williams Eleanor Williams is a British writer. Her debut collection of prose, ''Attrib. and Other Stories'' (Influx Press, 2017), was awarded the 2018 Republic of Consciousness Prize and the 2017 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her writing has also been ...

''Granta'' Best of Young American Novelists

1996

Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up ...

Madison Smartt Bell Madison Smartt Bell (born August 1, 1957, 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 Revolutio ...

Ethan Canin Ethan Andrew Canin (born July 19, 1960) is an American author, educator, and physician. He is a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Canin was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, while his parents were vacatio ...

Edwidge Danticat Edwidge Danticat (; born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, '' Breath, Eyes, Memory'', was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written ...

Tom Drury Tom Drury (born 1956) is an American novelist and the author of '' The End of Vandalism''. He was included in the 1996 ''Granta'' issue of "The Best of Young American Novelists" and has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berlin Prize, and th ...

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 ...

Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: '' The Virgin Suicides'' (1993), ''Middlesex'' (2002), and '' The Marriage Plot'' (2011). ''The Virgin Su ...

Jonathan Franzen Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel ''The Corrections'' drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a Jame ...

David Guterson David Guterson ( ; born May 4, 1956) is an List of American novelists, American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist. He is best known as the author of the bestselling Internment of Japanese Americans, Japanese American ...

David Haynes David Haynes (born 10 June 1981) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the West Coast Eagles and Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL), and East Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). Originally from ...

Allen Kurzweil Allen Kurzweil (born December 16, 1960) is an American novelist, journalist, editor, and lecturer. He is the author of four works of fiction, most notably ''A Case of Curiosities'', as well as a memoir ''Whipping Boy''. He is also the co-inventor ...

Elizabeth McCracken Elizabeth McCracken (born September 16, 1966) is an American author. She is a recipient of the PEN New England Award. Life McCracken, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Newton North Hig ...

Lorrie Moore Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore; January 13, 1957) is an American writer, critic, and essayist. She is best known for her short stories, some of which have won major awards. Since 1984, she has also taught creative writing. Biography Mar ...

Fae Myenne Ng Fae Myenne Ng (born December 2, 1956 in San Francisco) is an American novelist and short story writer. She is a first-generation Chinese American author whose debut novel ''Bone'' told the story of three Chinese American daughters growing up in h ...

* 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 Early life and early career 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, Penn ...

Mona Simpson Mona Simpson (née Jandali; June 14, 1957) is an American novelist. She has written six novels and studied English at University of California, Berkeley, and languages and literature at Columbia University. She won a Whiting Award for her first ...

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, erasing the boundaries between them as it explores diversity, permeability, and interdependence from a mult ...

Kate Wheeler Kate Wheeler is a Canadian broadcast journalist and former Network Managing Editor at Global News. Career Wheeler began her on-air news career in 1987 at CFTO in Toronto as a reporter, where she would become an anchor the following year and ...

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 Daniel Alarcón (born March 5, 1977, in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian-American novelist, journalist and radio producer. He is co-founder, host and executive producer of '' Radio Ambulante'', an award-winning Spanish language podcast distributed by NP ...

Kevin Brockmeier Kevin John Brockmeier (born December 6, 1972) is an American writer A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles, genres and techniques to communicate ideas, to inspire feelings and emotions, or to entertain. Wri ...

* Judy Budnitz * Christopher Coake *

Anthony Doerr Anthony Doerr 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 Doerr grew up in Cleveland ...

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 '' Eat ...

Nell Freudenberger Nell Freudenberger (born April 21, 1975 in New York City) is an American novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Education Freudenberger graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts and received a Master of Fine Arts from New Yo ...

* Olga Grushin *

Dara Horn Dara Horn (born 1977) is an 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 Priz ...

Gabe Hudson Gabriel George Hudson (September 12, 1971 — November 23, 2023) was an American writer. His novel '' Gork, the Teenage Dragon'' was released by Knopf on July 11, 2017., Bio , Gabe Hudson. Hudson's first book of fiction, ''Dear Mr. President'' ( ...

Uzodinma Iweala Uzodinma Iweala (born November 5, 1982) is a Nigerian-American author and medical doctor. His debut novel, '' Beasts of No Nation'', is a formation of his thesis work (in creative writing) at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed A ...

Nicole Krauss Nicole Krauss (born August 18, 1974) is an American author best known for her four novels '' Man Walks into a Room'' (2002), '' The History of Love'' (2005), '' Great House'' (2010) and '' Forest Dark'' (2017), which have been translated into ...

* Rattawut Lapcharoensap *

Yiyun Li Yiyun Li (Chinese: 李翊雲 - ''Li Yiyun'') (born November 4, 1972) is a Chinese-born writer and professor who has lived and worked in the United States since entering graduate school. She writes exclusively in English. Her short stories and no ...

Maile Meloy Maile Meloy (born January 1, 1972) is an American novelist and short story 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 ...

ZZ Packer Zuwena "ZZ" Packer (born January 12, 1973) is an American writer, primarily of works of short fiction. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her book ''Drinking Coffee El ...

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 Akhil Sharma (born July 22, 1971) is an Indian-American author and professor of creative writing. His first published novel ''An Obedient Father'' won the 2001 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, PEN/Hemingway Award. His second, ''Family Life ( ...

Gary Shteyngart Gary Shteyngart ( ; born Igor Semyonovich Shteyngart on July 5, 1972)' is a Soviet-born American writer. He is the author of five novels (including ''Absurdistan'' and '' Super Sad True Love Story'') and a memoir. Much of his work is satirical ...

* 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 *

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

* Joshua Cohen * Mark Doten * Jen George * Rachel B. Glaser *

Lauren Groff Lauren Groff (born July 23, 1978) is an American novelist and short story writer. She has written five novels and two short story collections, including '' Delicate Edible Birds'' (2009), '' Fates and Furies'' (2015), ''Matrix'' (2022), and '' ...

Yaa Gyasi Yaa Gyasi (born 1989) is a Ghanaian-American novelist. Her work, most notably her 2016 debut novel ''Homegoing'' and her 2020 novel '' Transcendent Kingdom,'' features themes of lineage, generational trauma, and Black and African identities. A ...

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 G ...

* Greg Jackson *

Sana Krasikov Sana Krasikov (born in Ukraine) is a writer living in the United States, best known for ''One More Year'' (2008) and ''The Patriots'' (2017). She grew up in the Republic of Georgia, as well as the United States. She graduated from Cornell Univers ...

Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey (6 May 1904 – 23 September 1979) was an English actress of stage and screen. Stage Lacey made her stage debut, performing with Mrs Patrick Campbell, in ''The Thirteenth Chair'' at the West Pier Brighton on 13 April 1925. He ...

Ben Lerner Benjamin S. Lerner (born February 4, 1979) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and critic. The recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, Lerner has been a finalist for the National Book Award for P ...

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 Anthony Marra (born 1984) is an American fiction writer. Marra has won numerous awards for his short stories, as well as his first novel, '' A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,'' which was a ''New York Times'' best seller. Personal life 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 north ...

Ottessa Moshfegh Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh (; born May 20, 1981) is an American author and novelist. Her debut novel, ''Eileen (novel), Eileen'' (2015), won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a fiction finalist for ...

* Chinelo Okparanta * Esmé Weijun Wang *

Claire Vaye Watkins Claire Vaye Watkins (born April 9, 1984) is an American author and academic. Her book of short stories '' Battleborn'' (Riverhead Books, 2012), won The Story Prize, among other awards. In 2012 the National Book Foundation named her a " 5 under 3 ...

''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 Pri ...

* Oliverio Coelho *

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 ...

Pablo Gutiérrez Pablo Gutiérrez is a Spanish writer. He studied journalism in Seville Seville ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Spain, Spanish autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is ...

* Rodrigo Hasbún * Sonia Hernández *

Carlos Labbé Carlos Labbé () is a Chilean fiction writer. Biography He graduated in Latin American and Spanish Literature; his dissertation was about Juan Carlos Onetti. Later he obtained a master's degree in Latin American and Spanish Literature with a ...

Javier Montes Javier Montes (born in Madrid in 1976) is a Spanish writer. He won the José María de Pereda Award with ''Los penúltimos'', his first novel. With ''La ceremonia del porno'', he won the Anagrama Essay Award, together with Andrés Barba. In 201 ...

* Elvira Navarro * Matías Néspolo *

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

* Alberto Olmos *

Pola Oloixarac Paola Caracciolo, better known by her pseudonym, Pola Oloixarac, is an Argentine writer, journalist, librettist and translator. Biography Oloixarac studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. Since finishing her post-graduate studies ...

Antonio Ortuño Antonio Ortuño (Guadalajara, 1976) is a Mexican novelist and short story writer. Ortuño is the author of the novels ''El buscador de cabezas'' (2006) and ''Recursos humanos'' (2007), finalist of the Herralde Prize. He also published the short st ...

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

Lucía Puenzo Lucía Puenzo (born 28 November 1976, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine author, screenwriter and film director. She is the daughter of the Oscar-winning film director, producer, and screenplay writer, Luis Puenzo. Early life Puenzo studied literat ...

Andrés Ressia Colino Andrés Ressia Colino is a Uruguayan writer. He was born in Montevideo in 1977. He studied biology at the Universidad de la Republica in Montevideo. He published his first short story in 2005, in the pages of ''Pimba!'' magazine, and his first nove ...

Santiago Roncagliolo Santiago Rafael Roncagliolo Lohmann (born March 29, 1975) is a Peruvian writer, screenwriter, translator and journalist. He has written five novels about fear. He is also author of a trilogy of non-fiction books on Latin America during the twent ...

Samanta Schweblin Samanta Schweblin (born 1978) is an Argentine author currently based in Berlin, Germany. She has published three collections of short stories, a novella and a novel, besides stories that have appeared in anthologies and magazines such as ''The Ne ...

Andrés Felipe Solano Andrés Felipe Solano (born 9 February 1977) is a Colombian novelist who published ''Sálvame, Joe Louis (2010)''; ''Los hermanos Cuervo (2012)'' and ''Salario Mínimo-Vivir con nada (2016)'', a long-form essay about his experience as a factory wor ...

* Carlos Yushimito *

Alejandro Zambra Alejandro Andrés Zambra Infantas (Santiago, Chile, born September 24, 1975) is a Chilean poet, short-story writer and novelist. He has been recognized for his talent as a young Latin American writer, chosen in 2007 as one of the " Bogotá39" (the ...

2021

* Andrea Abreu *

José Adiak Montoya Jose Adiak Montoya is a Nicaraguan writer. He was born in Managua in 1987. He is the author of several books, among them: * Eclipse: prosa & poesía (2007) * El sótano del angel (novel, 2010) * Un rojo aullido en el bosque (2016) * Lennon baj ...

* David Aliaga * Carlos Manuel Álvarez * José Ardila * Gonzalo Baz * Miluska Benavides * Martín Felipe Castagnet * Andrea Chapela * Camila Fabbri * Paulina Flores *

Carlos Fonseca Suárez Carlos Fonseca Suárez (born 1987, in San José, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican-Puerto Rican writer and academic. He is the author of the novels ''Colonel Lágrimas'', ''Museo animal'', and ''Austral'. ''In 2016, he was selected by the Guadalajara ...

Mateo García Elizondo Mateo García Elizondo (born 1987) is a Mexican writer. He was born in Mexico City, and studied Literature and Creative Writing at Westminster University in London. His first novel ''Una cita con la Lady'' tells the story of an addict who is reflect ...

Aura García-Junco Aura García-Junco (born 1988) is a Mexican writer. She was born in Mexico City and studied literature at UNAM. Her debut novel ''Anticitera, artefacto dentado'' appeared in 2019. This was followed by ''El día que aprendí que no sé amar'', a b ...

Munir Hachemi Munir Hachemi (born 1989 Madrid) is a Spanish writer. In 2021, he was named by ''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 ...

* Dainerys Machado Vento * Estanislao Medina Huesca *

Cristina Morales Cristina Morales Martin (born 21 July 1992) is a Spanish kickboxer. She is the reigning ISKA Atomweight K1 World Champion, and the former Enfusion 52 kg World Champion. Kickboxing career In March 2019, Morales was scheduled to fight Fan ...

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'' ( ...

* Michel Nieva *

Mónica Ojeda Mónica Ojeda Franco (born 17 May 1988) is an Ecuadorian writer. A native of Guayaquil, she obtained her bachelor's degree from the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, followed by a master's degree from the Universidad Pompeu Fabra de ...

* Eudris Planche Savón * Irene Reyes-Noguerol *

Aniela Rodríguez Aniela Rodríguez (born 1992) is a Mexican poet and writer. She obtained a bachelor's degree from the Universidad de Chihuahua and a master's degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana. was born in Chihuahua. She is the author of the story coll ...

* Diego Zúñiga

''Granta'' Best of Young Brazilian Novelists

2012

Cristhiano Aguiar Cristhiano Motta Aguiar is a Brazilian writer, critic and academic. He studied literature at the Federal University of Pernambuco, and pursued a doctorate at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University. A section of his doctoral research was published un ...

Javier Arancibia Contreras Javier Arancibia Contreras is a Brazilian writer. He was born in Salvador in 1976, to Chilean parents who went to exile in Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the worl ...

* Vanessa Barbara * Carol Bensimon *

Miguel del Castillo Miguel del Castillo (born 1987) is a Brazilian writer. Biography Miguel del Castillo was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1987 to an Uruguayan father and a Brazilian mother. He studied architecture at PUC-Rio, where he was also editor of the journal ' ...

João Paulo Cuenca João Paulo Cuenca (born August 4, 1978), also known as J.P. Cuenca, is an Argentine-Brazilian writer and filmmaker. He was selected for Bogotá39 in 2007 and for Best of Young Brazilian Writers by ''Granta'' in 2012. Career João Paulo Cue ...

Laura Erber Laura Erber (born 1979) is a Brazilian writer and visual artist. She has exhibited throughout Brazil and Europe. Erber writes poetry that is internationally recognized, along with short stories, essays, and books. She works in multiple languages. ...

* Emilio Fraia * Julian Fuks *

Daniel Galera Daniel Galera (São Paulo, July 13, 1979) is a Brazilian writer, translator and editor. He was born in São Paulo, but was raised and spent most of his life in Porto Alegre, until 2005 when he went back to São Paulo. He is considered by critics ...

* Luisa Geisler * Vinicius Jatobá *

Michel Laub Michel Laub (born 1973 in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian writer and journalist. Biography Laub graduated in Law at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in 1996. He also enrolled in the Journalism at PUC-RS, but did not complete he course. ...

* Ricardo Lísias *

Chico Mattoso Chico Mattoso (born 1978) is a Brazilian writer, translator and screenwriter. He was born in Paris. He studied at the University of Sao Paulo. Between 2002 and 2005, he was editor of the literary magazine Ácaro. He wrote ''Cabras'' (1999), in pa ...

Antonio Prata Antonio Prata (born 1977 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian writer. He is son of the writers and Marta Góes. He has published more than ten books, including ''Douglas'' (2001), ''As pernas da tia Corália'' (2003), ''Adulterado'' (2009) and ''Meio int ...

* Carola Saavedra *

Tatiana Salem Levy Tatiana Salem Levy (born January 24, 1979 Lisbon) is a Brazilian writer and translator. Early life and education Levy's parents are Turkish Jews established in Portugal during the Brazilian military government. She studied literature at the Fed ...

Leandro Sarmatz Leandro Sarmatz is a Brazilian writer and journalist. He was born in Porto Alegre and now lives in São Paulo. He studied at PUC-RS. Sarmatz was an editor at the publishing house Companhia das Letras, leaving it in 2016 to establish a new publis ...

Antonio Xerxenesky Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan language, Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language–speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top ...

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