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Motoyuki Shibata | Interview
Motoyuki Shibata & Fran Bigman
‘I always think the borderline between reality and non-reality, or fantasy, is much thinner in Japanese fiction than in American or British fiction.’
Jhumpa Lahiri and Mavis Gallant
Jhumpa Lahiri, Mavis Gallant & Rosalind Porter
‘Gallant is considered one of the greatest short-story writers of all time’.
Music and Memory
Various Contributors
‘There was a time when I discovered that the best way to remember things was with the accompaniment of very loud music.’
Marcelo Ferroni | Interview
Marcelo Ferroni & John Freeman
‘There’s a vibrant new generation of writers, trying to do something very different with Brazilian literature.’
Catherine Chung | Interview
Catherine Chung & Patrick Ryan
‘I think that my appreciation of what’s considered beautiful or elegant in math definitely carried over into what I appreciate in other fields as well. ’
Victor LaValle | Interview
Victor LaValle & John Freeman
‘Our battle is between those trapped inside the institutions of modern American life (our economic and political systems in particular) and those who manipulate such institutions for their own profit.’
Naomi Alderman | Podcast
Naomi Alderman & Ellah Allfrey
Ellah Allfrey speaks with Naomi Alderman, one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.
Oline Stig | Best Untranslated Writers
Lina Wolff
‘Oline Stig doesn’t blindly obey the narrow logic of the dramatic curve, and she lets the story branch where it is necessary. The end is surprising and, so to say, out of tune in a liberating way.’
Evan James Roskos | Interview
Evan James Roskos & Roy Robins
‘There is a view of American men presented by the media – of men as boorish, insensitive, emotionally immature – that manages to underscore various stereotypes that I feel fiction and poetry have a duty to dismantle.’
Edwidge Danticat | Interview
Edwidge Danticat & Ellah Allfrey
‘I am a writer who is shaped by everything that I have experienced and loved, including Haiti.’
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.’
Tania James | Interview
Tania James & Saskia Vogel
‘Write the story that unsettles and excites you, that keeps you coming back to your desk.’
