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Peter Stamm | Podcast
Peter Stamm & Ted Hodgkinson
Peter Stamm on imagining his characters as buildings, why he wants to have a room full of ugly objects and whether he believes that people can change.
Lina Wolff | Podcast
Lina Wolff & Saskia Vogel
Lina Wolff on Dante, the artistic temperament and the tension she feels between a ‘Spanishness’ and ‘Swedishness’ when writing.
Eleanor Catton | Podcast
Eleanor Catton & Anne Meadows
Anne Meadows talks to Eleanor Catton about opium and gold, whether a good author can also be a sadist and what it means to be a New Zealand writer today.
Claire Vaye Watkins | Podcast
Claire Vaye Watkins & Ted Hodgkinson
‘These are stories that capture sudden, unexpected intimacies and unearth alternate family mythologies in seemingly innocuous objects.’
Juan Pablo Villalobos | Podcast
Juan Pablo Villalobos & Rachael Allen
Juan Pablo Villalobos on class struggle in Mexico, parodying Mexican identity and the difficulty of translation.
Edinburgh Book Festival Special | Podcast
Kapka Kassabova & Peter Stamm
In this special Edinburgh Book Festival edition of the Granta Podcast Laura Barber talks to Kapka Kassabova (Street Without a Name, Twelve Minutes of Love) and Peter Stamm (Seven Years) about the often paradoxical relationship between writing and place.
Madeleine Thien In Conversation
Madeleine Thien & Ka Bradley
‘Do you speak or do you not speak? Is every word that you speak then compromised?’
Robert Coover | Podcast
Robert Coover & Ted Hodgkinson
Robert Coover reads his short story ‘Vampire’ and discusses the quintessential English novel and the intersection between myth and the modern world.
Lindsey Hilsum | Podcast
Lindsey Hilsum & Rachael Allen
Lindsey Hilsum on Libya, her time in Rwanda and how countries can repair in the aftermath of war.
Tan Twan Eng | Podcast
Tan Twan Eng & John Freeman
Tan Twan Eng speaks to Granta’s John Freeman about the art of shakkei and being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Jeet Thayil | Podcast
Jeet Thayil & Ted Hodgkinson
Jeet Thayil talked to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about being shortlisted for the Booker, the images of Christ woven into his novel Narcopolis and an unexpected digression on Blade Runner.
Alison Moore | Podcast
Alison Moore & John Freeman
Alison Moore spoke to John Freeman about the experience of being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, why her characters often find themselves enclosed in a memory and writing short.
