Kamila Shamsie

PEN International’s Day of the Imprisoned Writer – we stand in solidarity with writers who have suffered persecution exercising their freedom of expression.

Martin Puchner

Martin Puchner on ten books that have changed the course of world history.

Mary O’Donoghue

In this new series, we give authors a space to discuss the way they write – from technique and style to inspirations that inform their craft.

Madeleine Thien & Catherine Leroux

Madeleine Thien and Catherine Leroux introduce Granta 141: Canada in both English and French.

Nadim Roberts

‘They joked about how tough they’d be by the time they got home.’

Catherine Leroux & Madeleine Thien

Issue 141

Fanny Britt

‘Just as it can spur me on, worry is adept at stifling and silencing.’

Larry Tremblay

‘I dreamed of dictionaries. I crammed myself with liquorice, honeymoons, caramels.’

France Daigle

‘Our visibility and our affirmation as a people is established through our language.’

Issue 141

Douglas Coupland

‘In the year leading up to this I started collecting objects that, in some way, evoked a sense of Canadianness in me.’

Issue 141

Naomi Fontaine

‘Language is a risk that a nation takes. If a language survives, its people do too.’ Translated from the French by David Homel.

Fanny Britt

Comme il a grandi, j’ai pensé, puis j’ai passé la débarbouillette sous l’eau tiède du lavabo de la salle de bain.

Larry Tremblay

En ce temps si proche, Dieu était partout et personne ne pouvait l’assassiner.