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Kevin Brockmeier | Interview
Kevin Brockmeier & Yuka Igarashi
‘The great big real world of sensations and objects and other people’s minds is already deeply strange, but sometimes it takes a change of perspective for us to see it clearly.’
Translating Sex
Natasha Wimmer & Ollie Brock
‘I won’t say that the mood of a scene doesn’t affect me, but I’m not the translating equivalent of a Method actor.’
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.’
Salman Rushdie | Interview
Salman Rushdie & John Freeman
‘I'm not quite the same person as the ‘me’ about whom the book is written.’
Granta Best of Young British Novelists 4 Audiobook
Ellah Allfrey
In the first partnership of its kind, Audible and Granta magazine are collaborating on the unabridged audiobook production of Granta 123: Best of Young British Novelists 4.
Sonia Faleiro | Podcast
Sonia Faleiro
Sonia Faleiro on marginalized narratives, her time as a reporter and how gender influences her work.
Lana Asfour | Interview
Lana Asfour & Roy Robins
‘I do find in fiction the greatest freedom and therefore the greatest potential meaning.’
The Sweetmaker of Kabul
Oliver Englehart
‘The Mandayee bazaar in Kabul’s old city is no tourist souk. Stop to gawp at some oddity of life here and you might be trampled under the mucky wheels of an overladen handcart.’
Daniyal Mueenuddin | Interview
Daniyal Mueenuddin
‘Great translations are much rarer than great works of fiction or poetry.’
David Guterson | Interview
David Guterson & John Freeman
‘Hubris, power, sex, ambition, frailty, pathos, descent, castigation: there but for the grace of gods go I, and as long as it isn’t me, great!’
Granta Italy 3 | Interview
Paolo Zaninoni & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I do not feel our authors set out to reflect their age or their epoch: they are not into literature as sociology.’
Helen Oyeyemi | Podcast
Ted Hodgkinson & Helen Oyeyemi
Helen Oyeyemi speaks to Ted Hodgkinson about the joys of writing from a male perspective, magic in her work, and how as a girl she wrote alternate endings to the classics.