Sheila Heti | Granta

Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti is the author of eleven books, including the novels How Should a Person Be?, Motherhood and Pure Colour. Fitzcarraldo published her new book, Alphabetical Diaries, in February 2024.

Photograph © Steph Martyniuk

Sheila Heti on Granta.com

Podcasts | Issue 166
Podcasts | Issue 166

Podcast | Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti

‘It ended up taking fourteen years. But on the other hand, it only ended up taking five minutes.’

Sheila Heti on writing her latest book, Alphabetical Diaries, editing and the instability of a self-portrait.

In Conversation | Issue 166 padlock
In Conversation | Issue 166 padlock

A Good First Marriage is Luck

Sheila Heti & Phyllis Rose

‘Life is so difficult. It may take more than one creature to sustain one life.’

Sheila Heti in conversation with Phyllis Rose.

Fiction | Issue 158 padlock
Fiction | Issue 158 padlock

Pure Colour

Sheila Heti

‘She had never seen that colour before. It was the colour of a father dying.’

An excerpt from Sheila Heti’s forthcoming novel.

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Fiction | Issue 145 padlock

Speer

Sheila Heti

‘Every night for three weeks, I sat with Hitler after dinner.’

In Conversation | Issue 145
In Conversation | Issue 145

Sheila Heti and Tao Lin In Conversation

Sheila Heti & Tao Lin

Sheila Heti and Tao Lin discuss writing about motherhood and psychedelics, what changes when you begin to write under contract, and narrative forms that mimic the menstrual cycle.

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