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Ali Akbar Natiq | Interview
Ali Akbar Natiq & Ollie Brock
‘No character in my stories is an ideal person; they are mere human beings who can either be oppressors or oppressed, or sometimes both at the same time.’
Philip Oltermann | Interview
Philip Oltermann & Ollie Brock
Philip Oltermann spoke to Ollie Brock for the Granta Podcast about English bathrooms and German car engines, and how his experience as an outsider became the nexus of his forthcoming book.
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.’
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.’
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.’
Granta em Português | Interview
Ollie Brock, Robert Feith & Marcelo Ferroni
‘It’s been a rich, multifaceted, very challenging and hugely rewarding professional experience.’
Carlos Yushimito and Santiago Roncagliolo In Conversation
Carlos Yushimito & Santiago Roncagliolo
‘We shouldn’t just study people through their archives, but also by being witness to their dreams.’
Rose Tremain | Interview
Rose Tremain & Ollie Brock
‘I think, on a desert island, what I’d really appreciate are long books: books as day-by-day companions, to combat loneliness and fear.’
Kseniya Melnik | Interview
Ollie Brock & Kseniya Melnik
‘I wanted to write a story about the levels of pain, the ways people describe and explain sickness, and to what lengths they go to find a cure.’
Bani Abidi | Interview
Bani Abidi & Saskia Vogel
‘I prefer to engage with things I may or may not find important at my own discretion, and feel a bit throttled by the world’s anxious curiosity about Pakistan.’
Daniyal Mueenuddin | Interview
Daniyal Mueenuddin
‘Great translations are much rarer than great works of fiction or poetry.’
The National Language
Uzma Aslam Khan & Aamer Hussein
‘It gives me two languages to play with in my writing. It also gives me two languages to love and curse in.’
