Sigrid Rausing
Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia and the memoirs Everything is Wonderful and Mayhem.
Sigrid Rausing on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir | Issue 149
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘Somewhere in-between is the truth. Somewhere in-between is the story, or at least the European story.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Binyavanga Wainaina
Sigrid Rausing
Granta’s editor Sigrid Rausing remembers Binyavanga Wainaina.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
Editor Sigrid Rausing introduces Granta 147: 40th-Birthday Special.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 145
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
Editor Sigrid Rausing introduces Granta 145: Ghosts.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 144
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
Editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing introduces Granta 144: genericlovestory.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 143
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
Sigrid Rausing introduces Granta 143: After the Fact.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 142
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
Sigrid Rausing introduces Granta 142: Animalia.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 140
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘What’s in a state of mind? How do we describe emotions, or the complex relationship between individuals and the state?’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 139
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
Sigrid Rausing introduces Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists 3.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 138
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘Writing about other people doesn’t have to be an exercise of power or a theft of identity.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 137
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘What future youth movement might capture them, those international participants in virtual hunts?’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 136
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘To know love is to know (or to imagine) the loss of love.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 135
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘But Ireland is Ireland. It resists and relishes its own national images in equal measure.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 134
Introduction: No Man’s Land
Sigrid Rausing
‘We tangle and project, in exile; we make it up as we go along.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 133
Introduction: What Have We Done
Sigrid Rausing
‘There is an apocalyptic feeling in the air. I write the day after the news that the IS have blown up parts of the ancient site of Palmyra.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 132
Introduction: Possession
Sigrid Rausing
‘Possession takes many forms, and at the heart of it is death and dereliction, invasion and submission.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 131
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘The pieces in this issue of Granta are all concerned, in one way or another, with the difference between the world as we see it and the world as it actually is, beyond our faulty memories and tired understanding.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 129
Introduction: Fate
Sigrid Rausing
The last time I wrote about fate was in an article for the Guardian on...
Essays & Memoir | Issue 128
Introduction: American Wild
Sigrid Rausing
When I was seventeen, in 1980, I went on an American road trip with my...
Essays & Memoir | Issue 128
Going Back
Sigrid Rausing
‘We rowed towards it, further out than perhaps we should have, with the particular anarchic freedom of rowing a small rubber dinghy to sea after at least two glasses of wine.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 128
On Sweden, state power and Susan Sontag
Sigrid Rausing
‘Sweden in a sense was a celebrity state because it had become globally symbolic of the welfare state, of high taxes, of sexual education and liberation.’