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Granta Finland | Interview
Aleksi Pöyry & Francisco Vilhena
‘What is often particular to Finnish Weird is that it portrays a realistic, palpable setting which gradually starts to acquire elements of fantasy.’
Madison Smartt Bell | Interview
Madison Smartt Bell & Ollie Brock
‘A lot of my stories are like lint in your pocket.’
Turkish Granta | Interview
Berrak Gocer & Ted Hodgkinson
‘The writings, when they came together, made it very clear that there will always be a new approach to the issue of identity.’
Taiye Selasi | Interview
Yuka Igarashi & Taiye Selasi
‘I was rather surprised to discover that I’d painted such a devastating portrait.’
Ben Okri | Interview
Ben Okri & Saskia Vogel
‘Whenever we use the word beauty or we feel it, it comes from a sense of something indefinable.’
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.
Jess Row | Interview
Jess Row & Ollie Brock
‘What I’m most drawn to in writing about this subject is the way in which very small, intimate acts of violence (not even necessarily physical violence) often serve as a microcosm or incubator for the massive, cataclysmic violence we see all around us in the world.’
Salman Rushdie | Interview
Salman Rushdie & Blake Morrison
Blake Morrison interviews Salman Rushdie in 1990, one year after he was placed under fatwa.
Jaime Karnes | Interview
Jaime Karnes & Ollie Brock
‘I began telling stories as a child – a way to guarantee invitation to sleepover parties.’
Edmund White | Interview
Edmund White & Patrick Ryan
‘Although I was trying for the big-city and suburban realism of Yates, I didn’t mind adding a bit of fairy dust in the dialogue.’
Catherine Chung | Interview
Catherine Chung & Patrick Ryan
‘I think that my appreciation of what’s considered beautiful or elegant in math definitely carried over into what I appreciate in other fields as well. ’
Nathan Englander | Interview
Nathan Englander & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I don’t want to write any story that I think can be written.’
