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Soumya Bhattacharya | Interview
Soumya Bhattacharya & Roy Robins
‘The emotion and the impulse of fiction is autobiographical, but the events never are.’
Natalie Merchant | Interview
Natalie Merchant & Ellah Alfrey
‘Favourite poets, children’s ‘emergence into the world of language’ and their first glimpses of mortality.’
New Voices: Postcards
Billy Kahora, Jessica Soffer & Evie Wyld
Granta catches up with three authors featured in the New Voices series.
Peter Stamm | Podcast
Peter Stamm & Ted Hodgkinson
Peter Stamm on imagining his characters as buildings, why he wants to have a room full of ugly objects and whether he believes that people can change.
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.’
Guadalupe Nettel | Best Untranslated Writers
Santiago Roncagliolo
‘When I met her, I kept thinking: is she looking at me? Or rather, is she looking inside me?’
John Freeman | Interview
John Freeman & Roy Robins
‘I think you know right away if a piece of writing is good. Does it move me? Does it have intensity? Is it beautiful?’
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.’
Patrick deWitt | Interview
Patrick deWitt & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Names are always hard to come by for me, which can be maddening, because it’s an ever-looming question mark when I’m trying to bring a character into focus. And oftentimes it’s the name that solidifies someone in my mind.’
Nathan Englander | Interview
Nathan Englander & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I don’t want to write any story that I think can be written.’
Tan Twan Eng | Podcast
Tan Twan Eng & John Freeman
Tan Twan Eng speaks to Granta’s John Freeman about the art of shakkei and being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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.’
