The Fruit of My Woman
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How to be Gay and Indian
Manil Suri
‘This was supposed to be my great in-your-face coming-out campaign, which I’d fretted over for months beforehand. Had India suddenly lost its conservativeness, turned enlightened, even hip?’
Inner City
Lauren Beukes
‘It has taken this to make me realize that de-humanizing is not only something that other people do to you. It can be self-inflicted too.’
Granta Sweden | Interview
Johanna Haegerström & Saskia Vogel
‘If there are any tensions between Swedish writers it has more to do with style: writers who incline towards a more classical, epic storytelling versus writers who engage in more experimental uses of language.’
Guadalupe Nettel | Best Untranslated Writers
Santiago Roncagliolo
‘When I met her, I kept thinking: is she looking at me? Or rather, is she looking inside me?’
Kettly Mars | Best Untranslated Writers
Edwidge Danticat
‘Ms Mars is a singularly gifted writer, who with each new work delves more profoundly into themes that are both timely and essential.’
Rebecca Solnit | Podcast
Rebecca Solnit & Yuka Igarashi
Rebecca Solnit discusses interweaving personal narratives with the lives of Mary Shelley and Che Guevara, paradoxes and Beyoncé.
Remembering Iain M Banks
Stuart Kelly
Stuart Kelly remembers Iain Banks, and assesses the influence he's had on this generation of writers.
Nadifa Mohamed | Interview
Nadifa Mohamed
A short film featuring Nadifa Mohamed, one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists.
I Love This Dirty Town
Anjum Hasan
‘What is hard to miss and impossible not to grieve over is how present-day Shillong has been overwhelmed by the material aspirations of its people.’
Adam Foulds | Interview
Adam Foulds
A short film featuring Adam Foulds, one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.
A.M. Homes | Podcast
A.M. Homes & Yuka Igarashi
Yuka Igarashi talks to A.M. Homes, recipient of the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction for the novel May We Be Forgiven.
A.M. Homes | Interview
A.M. Homes & Yuka Igarashi
‘I don’t want to make suffering a positive (or negative); I very much want to acknowledge it without judgment.’
George Saunders | Podcast
George Saunders & Ted Hodgkinson
George Saunders talks about allowing his characters access to goodness, why he avoids ‘auto-dark’ in his stories, and the death of David Foster Wallace.
Naomi Alderman | My Writing Playlist
Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman shares five songs she loves to write to.
Tahmima Anam | Podcast
Tahmima Anam & Saskia Vogel
An interview with Tahmima Anam, one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists.
Steven Hall | Podcast
Steven Hall & Ted Hodgkinson
Steven Hall on the internet, writing from memory and Ian the Cat.
Zoë Meager | Interview
Zoë Meager
‘I haven’t written much local stuff, because I guess I’ve been more interested in the meeting of (potential) worlds.’
Things with faces
Zoë Meager
‘This is all you remember. The sound of her pacing the house at night.’
Michael Mendis | Interview
Michael Mendis
‘Mostly, writing is part of my process of understanding the world.’
The Sarong-Man in the Old House, and an Incubus for a Rainy Night
Michael Mendis
‘I say his fingers are dying because he is old. Because he is and alone. On that sloping armchair. But more because there is no turning back for him.’
Julian Jackson | Interview
Julian Jackson
‘I don’t have a short answer to where I am from – but perhaps that lack of ‘place’ influences my writing voice.’
The New Customers
Julian Jackson
‘All the time I could sense the watchful eyes and listening ears at the end of the bar.’
The Whale House
Sharon Millar
‘By morning the dreams are gone, flying through the tiny holes in the net in sudden starling movements.’
Sharon Millar | Interview
Sharon Millar
‘Writing allows me to go below the surface and pull up the things that can’t be articulated in any other form.’
Eliza Robertson | Interview
Eliza Robertson
‘I suppose if something moves me to write, I don't question it.’
We Walked on Water
Eliza Robertson
‘Land of the misty giants: cedar, alder, Ponderosa pine. Cascade Mountains pushing out green like grass through a garlic press.’
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.’
Jenni Fagan | My Writing Playlist
Jenni Fagan
Best of Young British Novelist Jenni Fagan selects five songs that she loves to write to.
Jenni Fagan | Podcast
Ellah Allfrey & Jenni Fagan
Jenni Fagan speaks with Ellah Alfrey about the care system, her days in a band and how a library van nurtured her love of reading.
Kamila Shamsie | Podcast
Kamila Shamsie & John Freeman
Granta Best of Young British novelist Kamila Shamsie talks to John Freeman about love, war and citizenship.
Ross Raisin | Podcast
Ross Raisin & Yuka Igarashi
Ross Raisin discusses how he evokes place and inhabits characters in his writing, the difference in his approaches to novels and short stories and his work on his forthcoming novel.
Nadifa Mohamed | Podcast
Nadifa Mohamed & Ted Hodgkinson
Nadifa Mohamed speaks with Ted Hodgkinson about her first novel, Black Mamba Boy.
Sunjeev Sahota | Podcast
Sunjeev Sahota & Ellah Alfrey
Sunjeev Sahota speaks with Ellah Alfrey about his work, Midnight's Children and having a day job.
