A.L. Kennedy
A.L. Kennedy is the author of novels, short stories and nonfiction. Her most recent book is We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time, published in 2020. She was one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 1993 and 2003 and a judge of the same list in 2013.
A.L. Kennedy on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
A Blow to the Head
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‘I am looking for my dead grandfather in the British Library.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
A.L. Kennedy | First Sentence
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‘I have never seen anyone eat figs in the street and feel I am unsurprised.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
A.L. Kennedy | God and Me
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‘Faith: the greater it is, the more unsupported it must be’
Fiction | Issue 43
Failing to Fall
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‘This is the one thing I know from the minute I lift the receiver and slip that voice inside my ear: it will happen.‘
Essays & Memoir | Issue 43
Home: Reflections for Anthony Shadid
Various Contributors
‘I realize it is my fault: whenever I live in any country, everything turns wrong. I see it as a gift.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 43
Insomnia
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‘After dinner and schoolwork and dog-walking and the rest, even if I’d put the light out and laid myself down for definite rest, little ideas and scraps and nonsenses would tickle in and start to shake me. They would make the nights too bright to resist.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 43
Introducing Tatiana Salem Levy
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Tatiana Salem Levy is introduced by previous double Best of Young British Novelist, A.L. Kennedy.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 43
Labyrinths
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‘I was tempted to let the pages blow overboard and start again...But they have very stern laws about littering at sea.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
On Judging Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists
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A.L. Kennedy on being chosen for, and judging Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.
Art & Photography | Issue 120
Ordinary Light
Brad Feuerhelm & A.L. Kennedy
‘Here were humanity’s wilder beauties and our horrors, the physical record of hatreds, lusts and quiet obsessions.’ A.L. Kennedy introduces Brad Feuerhelm’s photographic collection.
Fiction | Issue 105
Story of My Life
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‘Story of my life – maybe – going to the dentist.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 105
Summer with my Grandmother
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‘And this was my grandmother, this man-destroying tyrant, this magnificent perfectionist with untireable arms and unfathomable ways of seeing.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 105
That Whole London Thing
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‘But London has always been impossible and yet possible and has always called me.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 105
The End?: Writers respond to John Barth
Various Contributors
'I suggest he put aside all his writing rituals and that he give away all his money – that way he might find his talent will be rebooted.'