Sonia Faleiro

Sonia Faleiro on marginalized narratives, her time as a reporter and how gender influences her work.

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Sonia Faleiro

Tim Fitts

‘Fred was the type whose worldview gazed through a shadow of things that could go wrong, like most of the South Philly lifers.’

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Aminatta Forna

‘What happened in 1979 has happened many times before and many times since, in places where people have set themselves free and believed with all their hearts that the freedom they had fought for was real and lasting, only to be recaptured.’

Adam Foulds

‘The thrill of this film – and it is thrilling – is seeing that understood and played out by actors of incredible skill.’

Adam Foulds

‘There are two options for the young writer and employment. There is the proper job, whatever it might be – law, advertising, medicine or the default choice for many, academia. Or there’s the menial, rent-paying job.’

Adam Foulds

Adam Foulds spoke to John Freeman about how he wanted to be a scientist before discovering writing and his time working in a warehouse as a forklift truck driver.

Adam Foulds

A short film featuring Adam Foulds, one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.

Adam Foulds

‘His life, unexciting as it may have been so far, was still a detailed, complicated thing.’

Gavin Francis

‘I came to the Himalayas not because of a dream of mountains or of animals, but because of a map.’

John Freeman

‘We live in unreaderly times, but our belief is that these novelists will be exceptions to the general rule of irrelevance faced by writers today.’

Patrick French

‘In Edwardian days, if you were growing up in England (though Maurice was from Ireland) your life was regimented.’

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Patrick French

‘My antipathy to military culture started early and it wasn't helped by living in a garrison town.’

Rafael Frumkin

‘Them and not me, thought EJP. I can be invisible. I’m glitching.’