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Granta is a literary magazine founded in 1889. Read the best new fiction, poetry, photography, and essays by famous authors, Nobel winners and new voices.

Since the first 'Best of Young British Novelists' issue in 1983, Granta has championed the work of authors who have changed the landscape of British literature. In 1983, featured writers included Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis and Pat Barker, among many others. Subsequent editions have highlighted the work of Zadie Smith, Nicola Barker, Ben Okri, Jeanette Winterson and others. In 2023, we will introduce readers around the world to a cohort of outstanding new British voices. The judging panel for 2023 features authors Tash Aw, Rachel Cusk, Brian Dillon and Helen Oyeyemi, and will be chaired by Granta editor Sigrid Rausing.

Our winter issue is themed around losses emotional, physical and historical.Our winter issue features Raymond Antrobus on performer Johnnie Ra y, Marina Benjamin on playing professional blackjack, Chanelle Benz on searching for a homeland, Annie Ernaux (tr. Alison L. Strayer) on what affairs can help us bear, Richard Eyre on his grandfathers, Des Fitzgerald on losing his brother, Caspar Henderson on the sounds in space, Amitava Kumar on India today, Emily Labarge on PTSD, Michael Moritz on antisemitism in Wales, Roger Reeves on visiting a former site of slavery, Xiao Yue Shan on Iceland. Granta 162 will include fiction by Carlos Fonseca (tr. Megan McDowel l), Maylis de Kerangal (tr. Jessica Moore ) and Catherine Lacey, as well as photography by Cian Oba-Smith , introduced by Gary Younge , and Aaron Schuman , introduced by Sigrid Rausing .

From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now. This spring issue will feature award-winning writer William Atkins on the proposed nuclear power station Sizewell C.

From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now. This winter issue will feature Fatima Bhutto on her dog Coco, Andrew McMillan on the Goosebumps series, as well as non-fiction by Chris Dennis and Jacob Dlamini and fiction by Debbie Urbanski and Julie Hecht.

Granta's summer issue tackles conflict in all its forms.

This issue of Granta tells the story of siblings: chaotic hierarchies, zero-sum games of competition alternating with tenderness, lifelong relationships that nevertheless can sometimes break. Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal connections between siblings. This issue of Granta tells a different story - one of chaotic hierarchies, a zerosum game of sibling competition alternating with tenderness; lifelong relationships that nevertheless can sometimes break. Featuring memoir by Sara Baume, Suzanne Brøgger (Tr. Saskia Vogel), Emma Cline, Omer Friedlander, Charlie Gilmour, Lauren Groff, Will Harris, Lauren John Joseph, Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow, Jamal Mahjoub, Andrew Miller, John Niven, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Karolina Ramqvist (Tr. Caroline Waight), Taiye Selasi, Angelique Stevens. With fiction by Colin Barrett and Ben Pester, a graphic short story by Lee Lai; poetry by Will Harris, K Patrick, and Natalie Shapero, and photoessays by Sebastián Bruno introduced by Sophie Mackintosh and Julian Slagman introduced by Alice Hattrick.

Published four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding contemporary writing, art and photography. This summer issue of Granta features fiction by Jesse Ball, Eva Freeman, Okwiri Oduor, Tao Lin, Adam O'Fallon Price, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Kathryn Scanlan and Diane Williams. Granta 156: Interiors includes poetry by Kaveh Akbar, Sasha Debvec-McKenny, Gboyega Odubanjo and Nick Laird, as well as memoir by Chris Dennis, Debra Gwartney, Sandra Newman and Ruchir Joshi. With photography by Robbie Lawrence, introduced by Colin Herd, and Kaitlin Maxwell, introduced by Lynne Tillman.

Four times a year, Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you the best in contemporary fiction, memoir, reportage, poetry and photography from around the world.This issue features Lindsey Hilsum, author of the award-winning In Extremis, on cholera in Hutu refugee camps; Ian Jack on the toxic slag heaps of Glasgow and the aristocratic lives built on them; memoir by Vidyan Ravinthiran and Rory Gleeson; and poetry by Jason Allen-Paisant and Anthony Anaxagorou. Plus, new fiction from Paul Dalla Rosa, shortlisted for the 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and Gwendoline Riley, author of First Love.

‘After so many years of feeling that some Event was due, that something vast must surely happen, something vast happened. Is happening.’ from ‘Spring’ by China MiévilleThis issue reflects on confinement, escape and paying attention, as writers and artists respond to the pandemic.Four times a year, Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you the best new fiction, reportage, memoir, poetry and photography from around the world.