Stephen Grosz

‘As a psychoanalyst, I feel uncomfortable when I can’t remember a dream.’

Elvira Navarro

‘To see everything large and to see it all for the first time is what a child’s eyes constantly do.’

Andrés Neuman

‘And questions, more than heroes, are the material from which good stories are made.’

Laura Erber, Michel Laub & Ricardo Lísias

Three of Granta’s Best of Young Brazilian Novelists introduce Brazilian novelists whose work has not yet been widely translated.

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Nikolai Khalezin & Natalia Kaliada

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Andrea Stuart

‘I understood that migration was a kind of death, in which one’s old self must be buried in order for a new self to be born.’

Carola Saavedra & Sònia Hernández

‘It’s quite uncommon to find dialogues that engulf you from the first word.’

Dara Horn

‘Do yourself a favour: do not read Laura Erber’s ‘That Wind Blowing through the Plaza’ only once.’

Ricardo Lísias & Toby Litt

‘In every word I saw a true untrue Gogol, and I felt joy.’

Milton Hatoum

‘People say that Brasilia’s new national library opened before it had any books. Is that a metaphor for many politicians’ minds? Or for these times we’re in?’

Andrés Felipe Solano

‘From the future, Cuenca narrates Rio’s collapse and the personal fall of the main character. He does it with the elegant distance of a data collector but also with the terrifying certainty of one who knows there’s no going back.’

Javier Montes

‘Fraia sets himself the most difficult and respectable task a writer can face: unveiling the mystery without revealing the secret.’

Yuka Igarashi

‘We’re freaks . . . Why are we still talking about typos?’