For more about the author, including critical perspectives and in-depth biographies, visit the British Council’s web pages on Joanna Kavenna.
Photograph © Richard Saker for the Observer
Ellah Alfrey talks with Joanna Kavenna about wanderlust, genre-hopping and Nietzsche.
For more about the author, including critical perspectives and in-depth biographies, visit the British Council’s web pages on Joanna Kavenna.
Photograph © Richard Saker for the Observer
‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
Joanna Kavenna is the author of various works of fiction and non-fiction including The Ice Museum, Inglorious, The Birth of Love and A Field Guide to Reality. She was named as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 2013. Her latest novel is Zed. Photograph © A. Michaelis
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‘We all now exist as avatars, on shining tiles in these cubist landscapes’
Joanna Kavenna discusses her all-too-familiar surveillance dystopia, Zed.
‘She was so understanding, so interesting, such an intellectual. She was also a wristwatch, but this hardly mattered.’
‘We are real in an unreal reality, which we’re told is really real and that we’re actually unreal.’
An excerpt from ZED, the forthcoming novel by Joanna Kavenna, a Granta Best of Young British Novelist.
‘They slept curled together in a hammock, little scraps of fur, hearts beating madly.’ Joanna Kavenna on her pet rats, Kat Bjelland and Courtney Love.
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