|
Granta
Granta
 |
 |
Granta
is a magazine for all who love high quality
writing. Granta publishes new writing - fiction,
personal history, reportage and inquiring journalism
- four times a year. It also publishes documentary
photography. |
Detailed
Description
From the Publisher
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 Márquez,
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. Some of
them - Travel (Granta 10) and The Family (Granta
37), for example - have found a place in the recent
history of literature. 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 (by Dr Jonathan Miller) the sounds that chickens
make.
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. Two years ago, the London 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.' This commitment
means that it rarely publishes reviews or essays
or other forms of writing about writing. Also, it
rarely publishes poetry. There are few other restrictions,
other than that pieces which appear in Granta must
not have been published before in English.
It is a magazine, alive to the present, and not
a conventional literary anthology.
Ian Jack, Granta
AbleStable®
Review
Granta is a well established publication pumped
full of high quality, thought provoking writing.
It provides the reader with the very best of writing
from literary giants like Gabriel Garcia Márquez
to newer, lesser known writers.
Reading Granta you feel as if you've been invited
to an intimate gathering of talented, sometimes
quirky, but highly perceptive people. Their writing
has been chosen or commissioned in a very focussed
manner to compliment the often themed nature of
this great publication. It is evident that from
start to finish as the pages flip effortlessly,
each work, small or large, has found its perfect
place.
People who own Granta will comment on how they often
read them from cover to cover. That after leaving
a past issue on the shelf for years, they can easily
return to them and still find much to enrich and
entertain. Granta provides the context for authors
to express themselves from within a community of
writers, rather than as a featured author, and I
sense this is a significant reason for the loyalty
and interest of its continuing readership.
The
design style of Granta is unfussy and the word is
always of primary importance. Granta takes its role
of literary filter seriously, and has produced a
publication that is both challenging, yet a joy
to read. We've given Granta our five star award
for providing a literary gem.
Review by Mike de Sousa, Director, AbleStable,
Summer 2003
Find out more about Granta by visiting their web
site at:
http://www.granta.com/
Rate this magazine
|
|
|
|
