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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.’
Nawzat Shamdin | Interview
Nawzat Shamdin & Larry Siems
‘I remain what I have always been, a human being first, and then an Iraqi. And then I am a writer.’
Edwidge Danticat | Interview
Edwidge Danticat & Ellah Allfrey
‘I am a writer who is shaped by everything that I have experienced and loved, including Haiti.’
Madison Smartt Bell | Interview
Madison Smartt Bell & Ollie Brock
‘A lot of my stories are like lint in your pocket.’
Granta Italy 3 | Interview
Paolo Zaninoni & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I do not feel our authors set out to reflect their age or their epoch: they are not into literature as sociology.’
Granta Portugal | Interview
Carlos Vaz Marques & Ted Hodgkinson
‘We’ve kept the issue a secret because our goal was to offer a genuine feeling of discovery to Granta Portugal’s subscribers.’
Jo Broughton | Interview
Jo Broughton & Ollie Brock
‘Jo Broughton’s parents were ‘too busy killing each other’, she says, to know where she went when she ran away from home aged seventeen.’
Anthony Shadid | Interview
Anthony Shadid & Ted Hodgkinson
‘It’s very difficult to say what kind of Iraq is going to emerge from this trauma. I think we have to wait a generation.’
Florence Boyd | Interview
Florence Boyd & Ted Hodgkinson
‘There is a dichotomy of darkness and beauty within things that we can’t confront head on.’
Justin Jin | Interview
Justin Jin & Francisco Vilhena
‘This disaster has been going on for decades. I want to protest against this as loudly as I can through photography.’
Daniyal Mueenuddin | Interview
Daniyal Mueenuddin
‘Great translations are much rarer than great works of fiction or poetry.’
Eric Anderson and Sean Borodale In Conversation
Eric Anderson & Sean Borodale
‘The incendiary elements that start my poems are often something I find shocking, but hopefully not gratuitous.’
