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Xiaolu Guo | Podcast

Xiaolu Guo & Ellah Alfrey

Xiaolu Guo speaks to Ellah Alfrey about growing up in rural China, becoming an East Ender and writing in English.

David Szalay | Podcast

David Szalay & Ted Hodgkinson

David Szalay on how spending time in Hungary makes it easier to write about London, trying to live off betting on horses and how memory informs his work.

Jeffrey Eugenides on Adam Thirlwell

Jeffrey Eugenides

‘The playfulness of the language, the way the mandarin wit, line by line, consorts with grisly or louche material.’

Joanna Kavenna | Podcast

Joanna Kavenna & Ellah Allfrey

Ellah Alfrey talks with Joanna Kavenna about wanderlust, genre-hopping and Nietzsche.

Chloe Aridjis | Interview

Chloe Aridjis & Ted Hodgkinson

‘What really struck me was the way the Suffragettes were pathologized, and the way women who took a political stance were deemed ‘hysterical’ in some way.’

Naomi Alderman | Podcast

Naomi Alderman & Ellah Allfrey

Ellah Allfrey speaks with Naomi Alderman, one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.

International Prize for Arabic Fiction | Podcast

Saud Alsanousi & Ellah Alfrey

On Tuesday 23 April, in Abu Dhabi, Saud Alsanousi was announced winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

Taiye Selasi | Podcast

Taiye Selasi & Ellah Allfrey

Taiye Selasi talks about her mother’s garden, Rachmaninov and learning to speak Italian.

Granta Best of Young British Novelists 4 Audiobook

Ellah Allfrey

In the first partnership of its kind, Audible and Granta magazine are collaborating on the unabridged audiobook production of Granta 123: Best of Young British Novelists 4.

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.

Adam Foulds | Podcast

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.

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.’

Gadi Taub | Best Untranslated Writers

Etgar Keret

‘At first, I thought the best way to introduce Gadi Taub’s powerful novel would be through its sophisticated and twist-filled plot. But the hard hitting story isn’t half as complex and unique as its protagonists.’

Granta China | Interview

Patrizia van Daalen, Peng Lun & Ted Hodgkinson

‘Young perspectives always facilitate access to a culture because they are more easily accepted, and it is easier, most times, to assimilate with them.’