Explore Interviews
Sort by:
Sort by:
Three Questions for Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss & Saskia Vogel
‘It’s easy to make an argument for the importance of literature in general, but almost impossible to sustain any conviction about the specific value of one’s own work.’
Elizabeth McCracken | Interview
Elizabeth McCracken
‘This week John Freeman spoke to Best Young American Novelist Elizabeth McCracken about her works-in-progress, a novel that broke up into six short stories, and her contribution to Granta’s latest issue.’
Han Dong | Interview
Han Dong & Philip Hand
‘Inflaming readers isn’t a good thing; I want to entice them.’
Brigitte Grignet | Interview
Brigitte Grignet & Daniela Silva
‘Places sitting at the edges of the world are often destroyed in the name of so-called development.’
The Transcripts of Eichmann Interrogated
Jochen von Lang & Claus Sybill
‘In the early period the Jewish problem wasn't the main thing. What interested us in Austria was work and bread, freedom and an end to servitude.’
Bilal Tanweer | Interview
Bilal Tanweer & Ollie Brock
‘In my writing, the voice is the primary concern for me, and most of the time I construct everything else from it.’
Chris Dennis | Interview
Chris Dennis & Ellah Allfrey
‘A story is a dream, and no matter how fantastic the dream is, it’s still constructed from reality.’
Edmund White | Interview
Edmund White & Patrick Ryan
‘Although I was trying for the big-city and suburban realism of Yates, I didn’t mind adding a bit of fairy dust in the dialogue.’
Evie Wyld | Interview
Evie Wyld & Roy Robins
‘When I was at school I found I received the same satisfaction from writing a short story that I did doing awful self-portraits – only the results were much better.’
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.’
Rachel Seiffert | Podcast
Rachel Seiffert & Yuka Igarashi
Rachel Seiffert reads her work and talks to Granta about writing silences, the inescapability of history, the Troubles and learning to love her characters.
