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History
Granta was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as "The Granta". It was started as a periodical featuring student politics, badinage and literary efforts and was named after the river that runs through the town. An early editor of the magazine was RP Keigwin, the England Cricketer and Danish Scholar.
In this form the magazine had both a long and distinguished history. The magazine has published student and early work of various writers who later became well known, including:
Rebirth
During the 1970s the publication enountered financial difficulties and increasing levels of student apathy and as a result had to be rescued by a group of interested postgraduates. it was then relaunched in 1979 as a magazine of "new writing" aimed at both writers and a wider audience than the orignal Cambrdige limited one. Granta has been edited by Ian Jack since 1995. As of September 2004, its circulation was 46,831.
It now publishes four times a year a mix of:
- new writing—fiction
- personal history
- reportage and inquiring journalism
Granta Best of Young British Novelists
In 1983, Granta (issue #7) published a list of 20 young British novelists as names to watch out for in the future. Since then, the magazine has repeated the exercise in 1993 (issue #43) and in 2003 (issue #81). In 1996 (issue #54), Granta also published a similar list of promising young American novelists.
The 1983 List
- Martin Amis
- William Boyd
- Maggie Gee
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Adam Mars-Jones
- Salman Rushdie
- Julian Barnes
- Ursula Bentley
- Pat Barker
- Buchi Emecheta
- Ian McEwan
- Shiva Naipaul
- Graham Swift
- Rose Tremain
- Clive Sinclair
- Alan Judd
- Philip Norman
- A.N. Wilson
- Christopher Priest
- Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
The 1993 List
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Hanif Kureishi
- Ben Okri
- Esther Freud
- Caryl Phillips
- Will Self
- Iain Banks
- Adam Lively
- Helen Simpson
- Tibor Fischer
- Nicholas Shakespeare
- Philip Kerr
- Lawrence Norfolk
- Louis de Bernieres
- A.L. Kennedy
- Alan Hollinghurst
- Candia McWilliam
- Anne Billson
- Adam Mars-Jones
- Jeanette Winterson
The 2003 List
- Monica Ali
- Nicola Barker
- Rachel Cusk
- Peter Ho Davies
- Susan Elderkin
- Philip Hensher
- A. L. Kennedy
- Hari Kunzru
- Toby Litt
- David Mitchell
- Andrew O'Hagan
- David Peace
- Dan Rhodes
- Ben Rice
- Rachel Seiffert
- Zadie Smith
- Adam Thirlwell
- Alan Warner
- Sarah Waters
- Robert McLiam Wilson
The 1996 List of American Novelists
- Sherman Alexie
- Madison Smartt Bell
- Ethan Canin
- Edwidge Danticat
- Tom Drury
- Tony Earley
- Jeffrey Eugenides
- Jonathan Franzen
- David Guterson
- David Haynes
- Allen Kurzweil
- Elizabeth McCracken
- Lorrie Moore
- Fay Myenne Ng
- Robert O'Connor
- Chris Offutt
- Stewart O'Nan
- Mona Simpson
- Melanie Rae Thon
- Kate Wheeler
Recent contributors
Recent contributors to the magazine include:
- Martin Amis
- Julian Barnes
- Saul Bellow
- Bill Bryson
- Peter Carey
- Raymond Carver
- Angela Carter
- Bruce Chatwin
- Tony Earley
- James Fenton
- Richard Ford
- Martha Gellhorn
- Nadine Gordimer
- Milan Kundera
- Doris Lessing
- Ian McEwan
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Jayne Anne Phillips
- Arundhati Roy
- Salman Rushdie
- George Steiner
- Graham Swift
- Paul Theroux
- Edmund White
- Jeanette Winterson
- Tobias Wolff
Every issue since 1979 is still in print. Older issues are widely available in used bookstores, as well as directly from the publisher. The publishers state that some of them— Travel (Granta 10) and The Family (Granta 37), for example are "significant contributions to the literature of the English language."
See also
- River Cam, formerly known as the Granta
External link
- Granta Official Website (http://www.granta.com/)