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Joanna Kavenna | Podcast
Joanna Kavenna & Ellah Allfrey
Ellah Alfrey talks with Joanna Kavenna about wanderlust, genre-hopping and Nietzsche.
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.’
Rooms That Have Had Their Part
Joanna Kavenna
‘Rooms jaundiced by bad lighting, so you wondered, what is ague, and could we have it? Rooms that hummed, a hum you couldn’t quite identify, or that seemed in the end to come from your own head.’
Naomi Alderman | Podcast
Naomi Alderman & Ellah Allfrey
Ellah Allfrey speaks with Naomi Alderman, one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.
International Prize for Arabic Fiction | Podcast
Saud Alsanousi & Ellah Alfrey
On Tuesday 23 April, in Abu Dhabi, Saud Alsanousi was announced winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Rachel Seiffert on Naomi Alderman
Rachel Seiffert
‘So, to summarise: witty, bold, and delicate too. Oh yes, and supremely able to turn a story.’
Taiye Selasi | My Writing Playlist
Taiye Selasi
Taiye Selasi, one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, shares a playlist of songs to write to.
Taiye Selasi | Podcast
Taiye Selasi & Ellah Allfrey
Taiye Selasi talks about her mother’s garden, Rachmaninov and learning to speak Italian.
Zadie Smith on ‘Just Right’
Zadie Smith
‘There should be a special term for abandoned stories, and another for the strange limbo in which their occupants live.’
Granta Best of Young British Novelists 4 Audiobook
Ellah Allfrey
In the first partnership of its kind, Audible and Granta magazine are collaborating on the unabridged audiobook production of Granta 123: Best of Young British Novelists 4.
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.
Introduction: Best of Young British Novelists 4
John Freeman
‘We live in unreaderly times, but our belief is that these novelists will be exceptions to the general rule of irrelevance faced by writers today.’
Vipers
Kamila Shamsie
‘Cover your nose and mouth, the order came, swift and useless; if they’d had their turbans they would have wound them around their faces but there were only the balaclavas.’
Glow
Ned Beauman
‘Growing up, you got so used to all your secrets being sad or shameful that you came to assume they were, like alkyl halides, intrinsically neurotoxic, and now he had learned for the first time that they weren’t.’
Anwar Gets Everything
Tahmima Anam
‘Two ways a man can go here, in the direction of God or the direction of believing there is nothing up there but a sun that will kill you whether you pray five times or not.’
Soon and in Our Days
Naomi Alderman
‘It is not often, even in Hendon, that one witnesses a miracle.’
Filsan
Nadifa Mohamed
‘Silence takes the place of all these words and her loneliness remains as dense and close as a shadow.’
After the Hedland
Evie Wyld
‘I feel the pull of being alone, of answering to no one, the safety of being unknown and far away.’
Driver
Taiye Selasi
‘I am the full-time driver here. I am not going to kill my employers. I have read that drivers do that now.’
Slow Motion
Adam Thirlwell
‘It really wasn’t normal for me to wake up and not know how I got there. A normal pastime for me was to be intent on mathematical problems, or models of voting patterns in different democratic states.’
A World Intact
Adam Foulds
‘His life, unexciting as it may have been so far, was still a detailed, complicated thing.’
The Best of Young British Novelists
Nadav Kander
Nadav Kander's stunning portraits of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2013.
You Don’t Have To Live Like This
Benjamin Markovits
‘It felt like everything that had happened to me in college, everything I had learned to be comfortable with, had produced this jerk standing naked in the water, splashing his best friend’s girlfriend in the chest.’
Tomorrow
Joanna Kavenna
‘She was living as herself, in herself, without ever thinking about what that meant.’
Just Right
Zadie Smith
‘There’s no romance in that child whatsoever. No clue of the magic of storytelling. I’ll bet you a dollar she wears a girdle already.’
The Reservation
Sarah Hall
‘He can dream of fields of unicorns or invest in the reanimation of sabretooth DNA, if the prognostication visits him.’
Boy, Snow, Bird
Helen Oyeyemi
‘I didn’t enclose a note, though there were a few things I’d have liked to say. Restraint is classier.’
Arrivals
Sunjeev Sahota
‘But he couldn’t lose the sense that this was a turning point in his life, that she’d been delivered to him for a reason.’
Submersion
Ross Raisin
‘It is obvious now that we can have no control over our journey, or its end.’
