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Elias Khoury | Interview
Sophia Efthimiatou & Elias Khoury
‘As the reader follows her in and out of consciousness, her history unravels and entwines with religious and social myths, and Lebanese folklore.’
Granta Norway | Interview
Trude Rønnestad & Ted Hodgkinson
‘To an extent I have tried to make the issue span the full spectrum of Norwegian literature.’
The Quality of the Affection
Lloyd Lynford
‘What thou lovest well cannot be reft from thee. But maybe Ezra was mistaken, maybe it can be reft, but maybe that was her fault.’
Colin Robinson | Podcast
Colin Robinson & Ted Hodgkinson
Colin Robinson reads from his memoir ‘Paddleball’ in Granta 122: Betrayal and talks to Ted Hodgkinson about how an old brotherly friction re-emerged during a game in New York, and how gym culture has changed the way we view our bodies.
André Aciman | Podcast
André Aciman & Yuka Igarashi
André Aciman reads from the work and speaks to Granta’s Yuka Igarashi about the story, the problem with unreliable narrators and modern poetry, and why self-deception and betrayal are good subjects for fiction.
Seven Days in Syria
Janine di Giovanni
‘I had come to Syria because I wanted to see a country before it tumbled down the rabbit hole of war’
Don’t Fall in Love
Mohsin Hamid
‘She does not stare at you, but when your eyes meet, she does not look away.’
Mohsin Hamid | Podcast
Mohsin Hamid & John Freeman
The author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid, talks to John Freeman on The Granta Podcast.
Flowers Appear on the Earth
Samantha Harvey
‘In their deepest sorrow the islanders buried the ashes of their forty-six dead.’
Fiction by Samantha Harvey.
Abingdon Square
André Aciman
‘Your problem is not that you misread signs; it’s that you see them everywhere.’
Julie
Darcy Padilla
Darcy Padilla's ‘Julie’ is not only a devastating portrait of a woman enduring the horrors of poverty and addiction but also a legacy of a relationship between subject and photographer that spanned decades.
Postscript
John Burnside
'the trees / are slender in the way that things / are almost, though not quite / absent'
The Loyalty Protocol
Ben Marcus
‘The tally, indeed, on that particular activity, in that particular location – or, in fact, on any couch ever – was, indeed, zero.’
Kopfkino
Chloe Aridjis
‘Yet the little white disks with a dent down the middle are no panacea; whenever I take one of these thought guillotines I feel trapped in a grey zone’.
Sergio Pitol | Best Untranslated Writers
Valeria Luiselli
‘Perhaps it is the way he’s able to delicately tap into the most disturbing layers of reality and turn our conception of what is normal inside out. Perhaps it’s because he’s always telling a deeper, sadder, more disquieting story while pretending to narrate another.’
A Description of the Architectural Impact of My Home, Age 7
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
‘my apartment is neither over / nor under the sidewalk, / but both at once’
God is Brazilian
André Barcinski
‘Guys like V seem to be everywhere in Brazil these days: riding in vehicles they can’t afford, buying the latest generation TV sets and smart phones, getting hooked on endless installment plans and the allure of easy credit.’
Pola Oloixarac on Julián Fuks
Julián Fuks & Pola Oloixarac
‘It is a rare pleasure to read Saer’s influence through the Brazilian music of Julián Fuks’ language, with his keen and almost obsessive eye for detail.’
Man Crossing Bridges
Ronaldo Correia de Brito
‘He prefers the battles of the bed, but his wife insists on his keeping to a severe containment.’
Rodrigo Hasbún on Antônio Xerxenesky
Antônio Xerxenesky & Rodrigo Hasbún
‘Seven pages are also enough, the seven that make up this story, to discover Xerxenesky’s extraordinary talent.’
Samba e Choro
Javier Montes
‘I think the cities we remember best are the ones that greet us with the utmost cruelty.’
Howard Goldblatt | Interview
Howard Goldblatt & Sophia Efthimiatou
‘Humour, jokes, puns – those are indeed untranslatable.’
On Waking from a Dream
Stephen Grosz
‘As a psychoanalyst, I feel uncomfortable when I can’t remember a dream.’
Introducing Luisa Geisler
Elvira Navarro
‘To see everything large and to see it all for the first time is what a child’s eyes constantly do.’
Introducing Miguel Del Castillo
Andrés Neuman
‘And questions, more than heroes, are the material from which good stories are made.’
The Best Untranslated Writers
Laura Erber, Michel Laub & Ricardo Lísias
Three of Granta’s Best of Young Brazilian Novelists introduce Brazilian novelists whose work has not yet been widely translated.
