Granta Books Catalogue July to December 2023

If this man, and the murders he committed, seem still to occupy a kind of mythic register, it is largely because the story has never really been told. Or rather, it has been told, endlessly and luridly, but always in the same tone of breathless incredulity, and with a sullen and persistent silence at its centre… It was that silence that drew me toward Macarthur, that brought me into his life, and him into mine.

A Thread of Violence

A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

Mark O’Connell

The tale of a notorious double murder, a political scandal, and a writer who found himself entangled in this strange, true story; from an award-winning author.

In 1982 Malcolm Macarthur, the wealthy heir to a small estate, committed a brutal double murder which remains one of the most shocking cases in Ireland’s history. When O’Connell sets out to unravel the mysteries still surrounding these horrific and inexplicable crimes, he tracks down Macarthur himself, now an elderly man living out his days in Dublin and reluctant to talk. As the two men circle one another, O’Connell is pushed into a confrontation with his own narrative: what does it mean to write about a murderer?

Praise for Notes From an Apocalypse

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‘Extraordinarily good… Mark O’Connell is a truly brilliant writer’ Sally Rooney

‘O’Connell ventures into the territory of extremists and reports back with wit, moral courage and a sort of calmly appalled curiosity… Essential reading’ Mark Watson

mark o ’ connell is the author of To Be a Machine (winner of the Wellcome Book Prize, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford) and Notes From an Apocalypse (longlisted for the Wainwright Prize).

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sarah bernstein is from Montreal, Canada, and lives in Scotland. Her writing has appeared in Granta among other publications. Her first novel, The Coming Bad Days, was published in 2021.

Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein

A compelling, unsettling novel that explores questions of complicity, power and displacement.

A woman moves to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother. Soon after her arrival, a series of unfortunate events occurs –collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a birthing ewe; a dog’s phantom pregnancy. It becomes clear that the locals suspect her of wrongdoing. And however diligently she toils in service of the community, she feels their growing hostility pressing at the edges of her brother’s property.

Praise for The Coming Bad Days

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‘Manages to combine cool, perfectly weighted prose with an extraordinary emotional sensibility’ Fiona Mozley

‘Fine-tunes the reader into more sensitive ways of being in the world’ Guardian FICTION

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Though the Bodies Fall

Noel O’Regan

From an exciting new voice in Irish fiction, a powerful novel set on a clifftop – a story about duty, despair and the chance encounters upon which fate turns.

Micheál Burns lives alone on the Kerry Head cliffs, a notorious suicide black spot. Micheál’s mother saw the saving of these lost souls – these visitors –as her spiritual duty, and now, in the wreckage of his life, Micheál finds himself continuing her work. When his sisters tell him that they want to sell the land, he must choose between his siblings and the visitors, a future or a past.

‘I was immediately drawn into O’Regan’s delicately wrought debut by the tenderness he has for his characters, and by the quiet power that builds beneath the surface of his storytelling’

Carys Davies

‘O’Regan writes with compassion, humour and imaginative force, signalling the arrival of a major new voice in Irish writing’ Claire Kilroy

noel o ’ regan has won the Seán Dunne Young Writer's Award and a 2022 Arts Council Next Generation Artist Award. This is his debut novel.

dawn watson is a writer from Belfast. She is the author of the pamphlet The Stack of Owls is Getting Higher (The Emma Press, 2019) and is a lecturer at Queen’s University, Belfast.

We Play Here

Dawn Watson

Four female friends navigate the political turbulence of North Belfast in the late 1980s in this extraordinary, evocative verse novel.

We Play Here is a collection of four poem-stories, taking place in Protestant North Belfast in the summer of 1988, against a background of political turbulence. The girls inhabit an eerie, elemental landscape of normalised violence, poverty and neglect, in a lyrical and graceful evocation of working-class girlhood that rings of Elena Ferrante, Didier Eribon and Annie Ernaux.

‘I reached the end of We Play Here, and was so sorry it had ended I immediately read it again (twice more). From its capturing of the child-like vocabulary and intonation, to its subtly allusive and complicated child-via-adult birds-eye view, it makes an utterly compelling narrative. Its world is immediately recognisable in more than its Belfast context, and where the Troubles shadow the narrative, so too – more evidently – does the poverty-fuelled violence that characterised the decade’ Professor Fran Brearton, QUB

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Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

A haunting collection of stories that weaves Hawaiian mythology with a rich sense of place, for fans of Mariana Enriquez and Carmen Maria Machado.

Centering native Hawaiian identity and how it unfolds in the lives, mind and bodies of kānaka women, the stories in this debut collection are speculative and uncanny. Rooted in indigenous folklore and myth, these compulsive stories explore themes of queerness, colonisation and desire, and contain characters who seek pleasure and purpose even in the most absurd circumstances.

‘An extraordinary writer – compassionate, insightful, fiercely funny and super-smart’

Molly Antopol

‘Full of muscle and bone and sex... It does not pull its punches; it’s altogether a knockout’

Elizabeth McCracken

megan kamalei kakimoto is of native Hawaiian and Japanese descent. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2015 and is currently a Fiction Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers.

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Sister

Perpetué has heard that the man who lies in that room once ate a little child. There is more to it, of course. He worked up to eating a little child by eating other things first. Corks and stones. Snakes and eels. Dogs and cats, very much alive. She has heard how people would gather in the market squares and at the fêtes to watch him tear the bellies of puppies open with his bare teeth, there… He was a sight of rare, arresting hideousness, even in those times when severed heads were carried dripping through the street to vivats and strewed tinsel.

The Glutton

A. K. Blakemore

One man with an insatiable hunger: a novel of desire and destruction in Revolutionary France, based on a true story, from the Desmond Elliott Prize-winning author of The Manningtree Witches.

The 18th century is drawing to a close, and unrest grips the heart of France. Tarare is born into a world of brawling and sweet cider, to a bereaved mother and a life of slender means. But when a sudden act of violence leaves him with a ferocious appetite,Tarare begins a journey towards Paris; one that will lead him into the heart of the Revolution, into a world of upheaval and depravity, wherein the hunger of this one peasant is matched only by the insatiable demands of the people of France.

Praise for The Manningtree Witches:

‘Riveting, appalling, addictive’ Megan Nolan

‘Brims with language of arresting loveliness’ Guardian

‘Deft and witty… dazzling and precise’ New Statesman

a . k . blakemore is an award-winning author and poet. The Manningtree Witches, her debut novel, won the Desmond Elliott Prize and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award.

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12 –16 July: Puffs of meadowsweet

Whencarefully cut, meadowsweet smells pleasant, but when crushed, its fragrance becomes pungently medicinal. Meadowsweet has played an important recent role in the development of one of the world’s most used drugs: aspirin. This pharmacological tale, however, is complicated, because there are two competing versions, which cannot both be true. Just as the plant has two aspects, so do the stories: one is sweet, light and celebratory, the other astringently tragic.

Nature’s Calendar

The British Year in 72 Seasons

Kiera Chapman, Lulah Ellender, Rowan Jaines and Rebecca Warren

Illustrated by Rebecca Warren

A fresh take on the traditional almanac, here is a companion to the British seasons – all 72 of them.

Inspired by a traditional Japanese calendar that divides the year into segments of four to five days, this book guides you through a year of 72 seasons as they manifest in the British Isles. From ‘Catkins dingle dangle’ in the first days of January to ‘Tree skeletons and sky’ at the close of the year, each fleeting season is epitomized by some natural phenomenon, be it a plant coming into bud, a burst of birdsong, or a cobweb spangled by dew. Drawing on folklore and tradition, herbal medicine and natural history, this is a book to give, to treasure, to dip into, and to inspire your own regular acts of noticing nature as it flourishes and fades and rises again, through the seasons.

The authors of this book met by chance on Twitter, and the Noticing Nature project on which this book is based was the result. They are writer and editor kiera chapman ; author of Elisabeth’s Lists and Grounding

lulah ellender ; writer and researcher

rowan jaines ; and historian and artist

rebecca warren .

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Ben Lerner The

Lights

ben lerner is the author of Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04 and The Topeka School, as well as three previous volumes of poetry, which Granta published together as No Art.

From the author of Leaving the Atocha Station and The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent and moving, and speaks directly to our complex times.

Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights records the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking, accelerating crises. From one of the most celebrated writers of his generation, the poems in this collection come to us as beacons, illuminating new possibilities of thought and feeling.

‘Lerner’s poetry, like his prose, is subject to its own agitated brilliance… The result is poetry of rare immediacy and effect’ Lavinia Greenlaw

‘Lerner’s poems are brilliant. Again and again they decode and recode the daily mysteries. The questing intelligence and ironist’s wink are underpinned by a real moral force’ Nick Laird

The Dimensions of a Cave

Greg Jackson

The debut novel from one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists: a virtuoso, metaphysical thriller and a modern-day retelling of The Heart of Darkness.

When reporter Quentin Jones investigates a shadowy military programme during the desert war, he discovers cutting edge technology that simulates reality during interrogation. A haunting journey into networks of power and corruption, exploring our drive towards war and our obsession with new technologies, The Dimensions of a Cave heralds a dazzling and singular voice in fiction.

Praise for Prodigals:

‘So bold and perceptive that it delivers a contact high… intellectually, you’ve climbed into a highperformance sports car’ New York Times

‘The heir of Bret Easton Ellis… witty, ugly, dazzling and true’ Metro

Chosen as one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, greg jackson won the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award and the Bard Fiction Prize for his story collection, Prodigals.

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It was the man from Records who began it, him all unknowing in his prim, grim way, his aboveit-all oldthink way. He was the one Syme called ‘Old Misery’. Comrade Smith was his right name, though ‘Comrade’ never suited him somehow.

Of course, if you felt foolish calling someone ‘Comrade’, far better not to speak to them at all.

Sandra Newman

A brilliantly imaginative and urgent feminist retelling of George Orwell’s Nineteen EightyFour, as seen through the eyes of Winston Smith’s lover, Julia.

Julia, secretly promiscuous member of the Anti-Sex League, is adept at surviving in a world of constant surveillance, Thought Police, Newspeak and Doublethink. But when one day she impulsively thrusts a note into the hand of Winston Smith, she comes to realise that she can no longer safely navigate her world.

For the millions of readers who have been brought up with Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, here, finally, is a provocative, feminist and utterly satisfying companion novel.

‘Sandra Newman is a genius’ Sarah Perry

‘A writer of wild imaginings’ Sunday Times

‘I was dazzled by Sandra Newman’s The Heavens… It left me hugely envious of her confidence and skill’ Melissa Harrison

sandra newman was handpicked by the Orwell Estate to write this retelling of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. She is the author of five previous novels, including The Heavens and The Men.

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It’s not just the view from a balloon that can be amazing. The sounds can be too. When there is no wind sound travels upwards as easily as it does horizontally and reaches your ears with total clarity. Birdsong in a wood, the bark of a dog, the slam of a car door – all these can be pin-sharp. The world beneath becomes not just a panorama but a panacousticon, in which everything is audible.

A Book of Noises

Notes on the Auraculous

Caspar Henderson

From the Big Bang to the sound of silence, here is a compendium of noises from this world and beyond, by the author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings.

Sound shapes our world in invisible but profound ways, and here Caspar Henderson brings his characteristic curiosity, knowledge and sense of wonder to the subject to take us on an exhilarating journey through the heard universe. From the meditative resonance of a temple bell to an elephant’s ability to hear through its feet, this is a celebration of all things auricular.

Praise for Caspar Henderson’s writing:

‘Sheer exhilaration’ Sarah Bakewell

‘Wonderful, beautiful and engrossing... a delight’ Robin Ince

‘Henderson teaches us how to wonder anew with a new vision of science illuminated by a rich range of literature, philosophy, art and music. He quite simply reweaves the rainbow’ Hugh Aldersey-Williams

caspar henderson is the award-winning author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings and A New Map of Wonders.

the central association of germans of jewish faith (1895–1938) was an organisation dedicated to advancing the civil rights of German Jews in the face of rising antisemitism.

the wiener holocaust library is Britain’s largest collection of printed and archival material covering the Holocaust and genocide.

anthony kauders is Professor of Modern History at Keele University.

jessica west 's work includes the translation of Peter Wohlleben’s The Weather Detective

Anti-Anti

Resisting Nazi Antisemitism

The Central Association of Germans of Jewish Faith

Translated from the German by Jessica West, with a foreword by Anthony Kauders

An extraordinary historical document showing how the German Jewish community, using reason against crude lies, desperately tried to defend itself against Nazi propaganda.

Distributed in a clandestine manner in Germany in the early 1930s, Anti-Anti is a collaboratively produced handbook created by the Central Association of Germans of Jewish Faith to counter the Nazis’ ubiquitous and murderous antisemitic propaganda.

Published now in the English language for the first time, it offers a sweeping, and discomfiting, snapshot of German anti-Jewish feelings on the verge of the Nazi dictatorship.

Anti-Anti is Granta Books’ second title in collaboration with the Wiener Holocaust Library, published to mark the library’s 90th anniversary.

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Blackouts

Justin Torres

An intimate, emotionally rich novel, in which two men – young and old – reckon with queer histories and their place within them, from the critically acclaimed author of We the Animals.

Juan Gay is on his deathbed. There, a young man tends to this dying soul – someone who Juan met only once, but who has haunted the edges of his life ever since. As the end approaches, the two trade stories – resurrecting lost loves, mothers and fathers – and their lives are woven, ineluctably, into a broader story of pathology and oppression. Blending fact with fiction, Blackouts is a haunting, dreamlike rumination on memory, erasure, and on the ways in which stories sustain histories.

Praise for We the Animals:

‘Brilliant, poised and pure’ Marilynne Robinson

‘Searing and sparkling’ Esquire

justin torres is the author of We the Animals, and has published short fiction in the New Yorker, Harper’s and Granta, among other publications.

walter kempowski was one of Germany’s most important post-war writers. His works include the novels All for Nothing and Homeland, as well as the collective memoir Swansong 1945. michael lipkin is a professor of German Studies at Hamilton College.

An Ordinary Youth

Walter Kempowski

Walter Kempowski’s bestselling autobiographical coming-of-age novel, set during WWII, is a chilling exploration of how one German family adjusted to life under the Nazis.

Following the Kempowski family from the months before the outbreak of war through to the fall of Berlin, An Ordinary Youth is the fascinating depiction of an ordinary childhood in extraordinary times. Here, Walter’s academic struggle sits alongside his father’s conscription; his brother’s love of jazz burgeons amid the destruction of the artillery barrages. And all the while, the horrors of Nazism loom in the peripheries.

A bestseller in Germany on publication, An Ordinary Youth is an evocative chronicle of daily life in 1930s Germany, and a discomfiting exploration of the many forms that complicity can take.

Praise for Walter Kempowski:

‘A truly great writer’ Guardian

Translated from the German by Michael Lipkin

Jenny Offill

A beautiful new edition of the Women’s Prize-shortlisted novel: a dazzling, deadpan story of hope and despair, fear and comfort in these times of environmental and political turbulence.

Lizzie Benson, a librarian already overwhelmed by life, is asked to answer mail from the listeners of a podcast called ‘Hell and High Water’. As worries about climate change and the decline of Western civilisation pour in, Lizzie is forced to consider who she is and what she can do to help: as a mother, a wife, a sister and a citizen of this planet.

‘A barometer of how it feels to live now’ Sunday Times

‘Gorgeous, funny, deadly serious and warmly revelatory’ Max Porter

‘Do yourself a favour and buy this book’ Stylist

jenny offill ’s novel Dept. of Speculation was shortlisted for the Folio Prize and was chosen as a book of the year over 20 times.

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© Emily Tobey

mariana enriquez is the award-winning author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.

megan mcdowell is the award-winning translator of Samanta Schweblin and Alejandro Zambra, among other writers.

Our Share of Night

Mariana Enriquez

An electrifying horror epic: a novel of broken families and cursed inheritances, from the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.

Gaspar is six years old when the Order first come for him. For years, they have exploited his father’s ability to commune with the dead and the demonic, believing his powers can help them achieve immortality. Now, they want a successor. Surrounded by horrors, can Gaspar break free?

‘A magnificent accomplishment and a genuine work of power’ Alan Moore

‘Our Share Of Night binds together the terror of Stephen King with the history and aftermath of Argentina’s military dictatorship… A must-read’ Evening Standard

© Ariel Grinberg

Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

The Unfolding

A. M. Homes

The raucous new novel from the Women’s Prize-winning author of May We Be Forgiven: a family portrait that probes the implosion of the American dream, and how we arrived in today’s divided world.

The Big Guy loves his family, money and America. But his household is in disarray and a Democrat has won the presidency. Undone by the results of the 2008 election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of the country, while his daughter rebels and his wife succumbs to a long-suppressed anger.

‘Gripping, sad, funny’ Michael Chabon

‘A terrific black comedy… that feels terrifyingly close to the unfunny truth’ Salman Rushdie

‘Hilarious… Homes specialises in the insecurities, deceits and emotional desolation of America’s elite’ Sunday Times

a . m . homes is the author of 13 books, including May We Be Forgiven, which won the Women’s Prize in 2013, and This Book Will Save Your Life, a Richard and Judy pick.

© Marion Ettlinger

hiroko oyamada is the Akutagawa Prizewinning author of two previous novels, The Factory and The Hole.

david boyd is Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. With Sam Bett, he is co-translating the novels of Mieko Kawakami.

Weasels in the Attic

Hiroko Oyamada

Fish-breeding and weasel infestations punctuate this disarming, strange and strangely resonant story of one man’s journey towards impending fatherhood, from an award-winning Japanese novelist.

In the back room of a pet shop, two men snack on dried shrimps and discuss fish-breeding. In a home in the mountains, they confront a weasel infestation. During a dinner party in a blizzard, mounting claustrophobia leads to uneasy dreams. And when one of them becomes a father, more and more is left unsaid.

‘Simmers with eerie tension and bursts with unforgettable monologues’ NPR

Praise for Hiroko Oyamada’s writing:

‘Surreal and mesmerizing’ New York Times

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Translated from the Japanese by David Boyd

The Curtain and the Wall

A Modern Journey Along Europe’s Cold War Border

Timothy Phillips

From the Arctic Circle to the Turkish border, a landmark journey along the old Iron Curtain, tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live with its legacy.

‘A brilliant book written with a keen eye’ William Hague

timothy phillips is the author of The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age and Beslan: The Tragedy of School No. 1. He grew up in Northern Ireland and now lives in London.

Estates

An Intimate History

Lynsey Hanley

A groundbreaking tour through Britain’s ever-changing relationship with social housing, reissued with a new preface.

‘Articulate, savage, poignant, engaged and vividly descriptive’

Sunday Times

lynsey hanley is the author of Estates and Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide. She was born in Birmingham in 1976 and now lives in Liverpool.

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No Art Poems

Ben Lerner

An exhilarating collection of award-winning poetry from one of the most searching, ambitious and formally inventive writers working today.

‘[A] feast comprising form-defining modern prose poems, intellectual ease, and a distinctive style’ Daily Telegraph

ben lerner is the author of seven previous books of poetry and prose, including Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04 and The Topeka School

Endless Flight

The Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth

Keiron Pim

The acclaimed first English-language biography of Joseph Roth, author of The Radetzky March, a writer who captured life in Europe between the wars.

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, THE SPECTATOR AND THE TLS

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‘Superb – fascinating, shrewd, insightful… An enthralling, rollercoaster read’ William Boyd

keiron pim is the author of the critically acclaimed and prize-winning Jumpin’ Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock’n’Roll Underworld.

Wild Maps

A Nature Atlas for Curious Minds

Mike Higgins, with a foreword by Chris Packham

Illustrated by Manuel Bortoletti Consultant: Ian Wright

Which nations have launched which animals into space? Where can you hug the world’s oldest tree? Where have creatures become extinct in the 21st century?

From the publishers of Brilliant Maps, here is a colourful cartographic journey through our planet’s weirdest and most wonderful phenomena.

mike higgins is a freelance editor and writer. manuel bortoletti is an awardwinning freelance graphic designer. ian wright is the founder of www. brilliantmaps.com. chris packham is a naturalist, nature photographer, television presenter and writer.

Mr B.

George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century

Jennifer Homans

From the author of Apollo’s Angels, the first major biography of the fascinating figure who modernised ballet.

‘Magnificent… Researched with exhaustive diligence and written with unfailing passion’ Sunday Telegraph

jennifer homans ’s Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet, was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.

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BEST OF GRANTA is a showcase of our most iconic fiction and non-fiction – titles that conjure the purpose and spirit of Granta Books, presented in a stunning new paperback livery.

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The Luminaries

Eleanor Catton

Winner of the Booker Prize

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Straw Dogs

John Gray

‘Nobody can hope to understand the times in which we live unless they have read Straw Dogs’ Mail on Sunday

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Men Explain Things to Me

Rebecca Solnit

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Caroline Criado-Perez

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The Vegetarian

Han Kang

Winner of the International Booker Prize

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Nothing to Envy

Barbara Demick

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize

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Leaving

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Ben Lerner

Winner of the Believer Book Award

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The UK’s most prestigious literary quarterly brings you prize-winning new fiction, reportage, memoir, poetry and photography from debut writers and established voices.

The BBC National Short Story Award 2022 was awarded to Saba Sams for her story ‘Blue 4eva’, from her collection Send Nudes. From the same collection, Granta published ‘Snakebite’, as well as an essay, ‘A World Run by Mothers’. Five stories that Granta published also featured on the longlist: ‘Shining the Boot’ by Sarah Bernstein; ‘People Who Live Here’ by Holly Pester; ‘Signal’ by Zakia Uddin; ‘My Father’s Lover Was Never the Stepdad I Wanted Him to Be’ by Isabel Waidner and ‘The Schoolmaster’s Enemy’ by Missouri Williams.

Debra Gwartney’s ‘Fire and Ice’ was included in Pushcart Prize XLVII: Best of the Small Presses (2023 edition). ‘A Series of Rooms

Occupied by Ghislaine Maxwell’ by Chris Dennis won a 2021 Sidney Award. Both were first published in Granta 156: Interiors.

‘Granta does what a good literary magazine should: showcase the newest by the best authors and the best by the newest authors’ Scotland on Sunday

‘Dengue Boy’ by Michel Nieva, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer, was a winner of the 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction. ‘Me, Rory, and Aurora’ by Jonas Eika, translated from the Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg, was a winner of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction.

‘Roses’ by Legacy Russell and ‘Upper Extremity’ by Claire Luchette were included in the 2022 Best of the Net Anthology.

‘Up Late’ by Nick Laird won the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Granta has also published poetry by the other shortlisted writers: Kaveh Akbar, Shane McCrae, Helen Mort, Carl Phillips, Stephanie SyQuia and Padraig Regan.

The Colony by Audrey Magee was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize after an excerpt was published on Granta’s website. NoViolet Bulawayo and Claire Keegan, both previously published by Granta, were shortlisted for the prize.

Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in PostSoviet Estonia and the memoirs Everything Is Wonderful and Mayhem.

Granta 164 will be published in July 2023, and Granta 165 in November 2023.

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