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Granta
Frequency: 4 issues per year |
Usual Issue Price:
£12.99
The world's finest literary magazine. Published quarterly, GRANTA introduces you to the cream of new writing from both English and international authors. A mix of fiction, memoir, non-fiction and reportage. Uniquely GRANTA takes the form of a paper back book with a minimum of 260 pages per issue. "An indispensable part of the intellectual landscape" - THE OBSERVER
About Granta magazine
Granta magazine was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta. In this original incarnation it had a long and distinguished history, publishing the early work of many writers who later became well known, including A. A. Milne, Michael Frayn, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. During the 1970s it was successfully and surprisingly relaunched as a magazine of new writing, with both writers and their audience drawn from the world beyond Cambridge.
Since 1979, the year of its rebirth, Granta has published many of the world's finest writers tackling some of the world's most important subjects, from intimate human experiences to the large public and political events that have shaped our lives. Its contributors have included Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Saul Bellow, Peter Carey, Raymond Carver, Angela Carter, Bruce Chatwin, James Fenton, Richard Ford, Martha Gellhorn, Nadine Gordimer, Milan Kundera, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jayne Anne Phillips, Salman Rushdie, George Steiner, Graham Swift, Paul Theroux, Edmund White, Jeanette Winterson, Tobias Wolff. Every issue since 1979 is still in print. In the pages of Granta, readers met for the first time the narrative prose of writers such as Bill Bryson, Romesh Gunesekera, Blake Morrison, Arundhati Roy and Zadie Smith; and have encountered events and topics as diverse as the fall of Saigon, the mythology of the Titanic, adultery, psychotherapy and Chinese cricket fighting.
Granta does not have a political or literary manifesto, but it does have a belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story's supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real. As the
Observer wrote of Granta: 'In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, Granta has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world.'
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Granta magazine
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