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Mohsin Hamid | Podcast
Mohsin Hamid & John Freeman
The author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid, talks to John Freeman on The Granta Podcast.
Sergio Pitol | Best Untranslated Writers
Valeria Luiselli
‘Perhaps it is the way he’s able to delicately tap into the most disturbing layers of reality and turn our conception of what is normal inside out. Perhaps it’s because he’s always telling a deeper, sadder, more disquieting story while pretending to narrate another.’
Howard Goldblatt | Interview
Howard Goldblatt & Sophia Efthimiatou
‘Humour, jokes, puns – those are indeed untranslatable.’
Vinicius Jatobá and Jethro Soutar | Podcast
Vinicius Jatobá & Jethro Soutar
Vinicius Jatobá and his translator Jethro Soutar discuss the challenges of translating his story ‘Still Life’ the role of China in the story and the intimate bond between author and translator.
Melanie Rae Thon on Vinicius Jatobá
Vinicius Jatobá & Melanie Rae Thon
‘You see that the only thing that seems to move in its atmosphere is dust suspended against a fine thread of sunlight, that time itself sleeps lazily on the stupefied clocks.’
Adam Thirlwell on Michel Laub
Michel Laub & Adam Thirlwell
‘The thing I really love about this story is how it manages its matryoshka feat – to be at once a free floating meditation, leaping like some street cat from wall to wall, while also going deeper and deeper into a single theme.’
Kevin Brockmeier on Leandro Sarmatz
Leandro Sarmatz & Kevin Brockmeier
Kevin Brockmeier introduces Granta Best of Young Brazilian Novelist Leandro Sarmatz.
Deborah Levy | Podcast
Deborah Levy & Ted Hodgkinson
Here Deborah Levy spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why as she wants to resist anything resembling a comfort zone and why writing fiction is about ‘finding reasons to live’.
Brad Feuerhelm | Podcast
Brad Feuerhelm & Ted Hodgkinson
Brad Feuerhelm spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about the stories that lie behind his images from the issue and how his work is informed by his love of horror movies.
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.
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.
Mo Yan | Interview
Mo Yan & John Freeman
‘My life is more current, more contemporary and the cutting throat cruelty of our contemporary times limits the romance that I once felt.’
