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Patrick deWitt | Interview
Patrick deWitt & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Names are always hard to come by for me, which can be maddening, because it’s an ever-looming question mark when I’m trying to bring a character into focus. And oftentimes it’s the name that solidifies someone in my mind.’
Samantha Smith | Interview
Samantha Smith & Ted Hodgkinson
‘To write this memoir, I’ve had to open old wounds and go back to them again and again.’
John Burnside | Interview
John Burnside & Rachael Allen
‘Marx said the forest only echoes back what you shout into it – and this is very often true, perhaps more often than not, but I think the poet’s task is to suggest that it needn’t be.’
Edwidge Danticat | Interview
Edwidge Danticat & Ellah Allfrey
‘I am a writer who is shaped by everything that I have experienced and loved, including Haiti.’
Emily Berry | Interview
Emily Berry & Rachael Allen
‘I’m not even very comfortable being defined as a female poet. You never hear about ‘male poets’.’
Paolo Zaninoni | Interview
Paolo Zaninoni & John Freeman
‘After almost three years of economic recession and youth unemployment estimated at around twenty per cent, it is fair to say that Italian attitudes towards work have become more serious.’
Taiye Selasi | Interview
Yuka Igarashi & Taiye Selasi
‘I was rather surprised to discover that I’d painted such a devastating portrait.’
Urvashi Butalia | Interview
Urvashi Butalia & Saskia Vogel
‘Feminist movements everywhere in the world are born of the particular political and economic realities of the places where they exist.’
Postcards | New Voices
Soumaya Battacharya, Hannah Gersen & Evan James Roskos
Granta catches up with three writers featured in the New Voices series: Soumaya Battacharya, Hannah Gersen and Evan James Roskos.
Jaime Karnes | Interview
Jaime Karnes & Ollie Brock
‘I began telling stories as a child – a way to guarantee invitation to sleepover parties.’
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.’
Kevin Brockmeier | Interview
Kevin Brockmeier & Yuka Igarashi
‘The great big real world of sensations and objects and other people’s minds is already deeply strange, but sometimes it takes a change of perspective for us to see it clearly.’
