Ollie Brock
Ollie Brock is a translator and former Online Editor at Granta.
Ollie Brock on Granta.com
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Jaime Karnes | Interview
Jaime Karnes & Ollie Brock
‘I began telling stories as a child – a way to guarantee invitation to sleepover parties.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Madison Smartt Bell | Interview
Madison Smartt Bell & Ollie Brock
‘A lot of my stories are like lint in your pocket.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Ali Akbar Natiq | Interview
Ali Akbar Natiq & Ollie Brock
‘No character in my stories is an ideal person; they are mere human beings who can either be oppressors or oppressed, or sometimes both at the same time.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Philip Oltermann | Interview
Philip Oltermann & Ollie Brock
Philip Oltermann spoke to Ollie Brock for the Granta Podcast about English bathrooms and German car engines, and how his experience as an outsider became the nexus of his forthcoming book.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Bilal Tanweer | Interview
Bilal Tanweer & Ollie Brock
‘In my writing, the voice is the primary concern for me, and most of the time I construct everything else from it.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Granta em Português | Interview
Ollie Brock, Robert Feith & Marcelo Ferroni
‘It’s been a rich, multifaceted, very challenging and hugely rewarding professional experience.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Carlos Yushimito and Santiago Roncagliolo In Conversation
Carlos Yushimito & Santiago Roncagliolo
‘We shouldn’t just study people through their archives, but also by being witness to their dreams.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
El Salvador | Snapshot
Horacio Castellanos Moya
‘Don’t mind the sun that beats leadenly down, or the light that stings their eyes, or the danger that lurks nearby, because that’s what life has always been: a little air gulped down amid the crowd.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Rose Tremain | Interview
Rose Tremain & Ollie Brock
‘I think, on a desert island, what I’d really appreciate are long books: books as day-by-day companions, to combat loneliness and fear.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Kseniya Melnik | Interview
Ollie Brock & Kseniya Melnik
‘I wanted to write a story about the levels of pain, the ways people describe and explain sickness, and to what lengths they go to find a cure.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Toby Litt | Interview
Toby Litt & Ollie Brock
‘I wanted to write a minimalist romance, so I needed to have plenty of Love and Death. A dead human heart is both.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Translating Sex
Natasha Wimmer & Ollie Brock
‘I won’t say that the mood of a scene doesn’t affect me, but I’m not the translating equivalent of a Method actor.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Jo Broughton | Interview
Jo Broughton & Ollie Brock
‘Jo Broughton’s parents were ‘too busy killing each other’, she says, to know where she went when she ran away from home aged seventeen.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Catherine Chung | Interview
Catherine Chung & Ollie Brock
‘I think my interest in mathematics was that of a writer: I was always trying to translate it back into a story.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Jonathan Safran Foer | Interview
Jonathan Safran Foer & Ollie Brock
‘This is the sort of book I wanted to read, wanted to have, regretted not having.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Jess Row | Interview
Jess Row & Ollie Brock
‘What I’m most drawn to in writing about this subject is the way in which very small, intimate acts of violence (not even necessarily physical violence) often serve as a microcosm or incubator for the massive, cataclysmic violence we see all around us in the world.’
