Ted Hodgkinson
Ted Hodgkinson is the previous online editor at Granta. He was a judge for the 2012 Costa Book Awards’ poetry prize, announced earlier this year. He managed the Santa Maddalena Foundation in Tuscany, the affiliated Gregor Von Rezzori Literary Prize and still serves as an advisor. His stories have appeared in Notes from the Underground and The Mays and his criticism in the Times Literary Supplement. He has an MA in English from Oxford and an MFA from Columbia.
Ted Hodgkinson on Granta.com
In Conversation | The Online Edition
A. Igoni Barrett | Interview
A. Igoni Barrett & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Fixing the rhythm of one sentence in the novel I’m working on is more vital for me than any considerations of where I’m coming from or where my work is headed.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Steven Hall | Podcast
Steven Hall & Ted Hodgkinson
Steven Hall on the internet, writing from memory and Ian the Cat.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Granta Portugal | Interview
Carlos Vaz Marques & Ted Hodgkinson
‘We’ve kept the issue a secret because our goal was to offer a genuine feeling of discovery to Granta Portugal’s subscribers.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Chloe Aridjis | Interview
Chloe Aridjis & Ted Hodgkinson
‘What really struck me was the way the Suffragettes were pathologized, and the way women who took a political stance were deemed ‘hysterical’ in some way.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Evie Wyld | Podcast
Evie Wyld & Ted Hodgkinson
Evie Wyld talks to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why living in Peckham makes it easier to write about rural Australia, how memory informs her stories and why she can’t write a novel without at least one shark in it.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Turkish Granta | Interview
Berrak Gocer & Ted Hodgkinson
‘The writings, when they came together, made it very clear that there will always be a new approach to the issue of identity.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Granta China | Interview
Patrizia van Daalen, Peng Lun & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Young perspectives always facilitate access to a culture because they are more easily accepted, and it is easier, most times, to assimilate with them.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Al Alvarez | Interview
Al Alvarez & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I think anything is good for you that makes you laugh.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Dan Rhodes | Interview
Dan Rhodes & Ted Hodgkinson
‘My work tends to be about people who struggle to understand what’s going on around them. I can’t think why that would be.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Granta Norway | Interview
Trude Rønnestad & Ted Hodgkinson
‘To an extent I have tried to make the issue span the full spectrum of Norwegian literature.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Zadie Smith | Interview
Zadie Smith & Ted Hodgkinson
Zadie Smith on writing tighter sentences, the ‘essential hubris’ of criticism and why novelists prefer writing in their pyjamas.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Florence Boyd | Interview
Florence Boyd & Ted Hodgkinson
‘There is a dichotomy of darkness and beauty within things that we can’t confront head on.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Anthony Shadid | Interview
Anthony Shadid & Ted Hodgkinson
‘It’s very difficult to say what kind of Iraq is going to emerge from this trauma. I think we have to wait a generation.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Nathan Englander | Interview
Nathan Englander & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I don’t want to write any story that I think can be written.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Ben Lerner | Interview
Ben Lerner & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I have no memory of intending to write a novel.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Adam Thirlwell | Interview
Adam Thirlwell & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I suppose it’s that word hyper that I was after: I was trying to find a form for a kind of hyper energy or anxiety.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Paula Bohince | Interview
Paula Bohince & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I like the friction of fixed physical atmospheres with different lives passing through.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Rowan Ricardo Phillips | Interview
Rowan Ricardo Phillips & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Poetry’s strongest response, on the other hand, is determined, open-ended world-making, which is the work of empathy.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Ian Teh | Interview
Ian Teh & Ted Hodgkinson
‘The pictures I take are fly-on-the-wall and open to interpretation.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Nick Papadimitriou | Interview
Nick Papadimitriou & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I found that the torrent of inner voices I habitually heard began to organise itself in relation to the landscapes I passed through, the things I saw.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Granta Italy 3 | Interview
Paolo Zaninoni & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I do not feel our authors set out to reflect their age or their epoch: they are not into literature as sociology.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Hari Kunzru | Interview
Hari Kunzru & Ted Hodgkinson
‘It was interesting to me how readily UFOs can be mapped onto a spiritualism, Madame Blavatsky and so on.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Granta Italy Sex | Interview
Paolo Zaninoni & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I think that the metaphor of bodily failure is a very apt one to reflect the feeling of weakness and despondency palpable today within the Italian society.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Nick Dybek | Interview
Nick Dybek & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Maybe it’s what draws so many writers to the adolescent perspective; during that time, imagination and experience are in a death match.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Peter Orner | Interview
Peter Orner & Ted Hodgkinson
‘For me the strange moments that make up our lives are plot.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Patrick deWitt | Interview
Patrick deWitt & Ted Hodgkinson
‘The question of whether or not I’m addressing America in my writing only comes up with people outside of America.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Wiam El-Tamami | Interview
Wiam El-Tamami & Ted Hodgkinson
‘So you see, translators tread a tricky tightrope between capturing the full implications of the Arabic while creating an English text that flows smoothly and doesn’t sound overwrought, dated, or downright melodramatic.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Patrick deWitt | Interview
Patrick deWitt & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Names are always hard to come by for me, which can be maddening, because it’s an ever-looming question mark when I’m trying to bring a character into focus. And oftentimes it’s the name that solidifies someone in my mind.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Samantha Smith | Interview
Samantha Smith & Ted Hodgkinson
‘To write this memoir, I’ve had to open old wounds and go back to them again and again.’