Granta: The Magazine of New Writing

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in Cambridge, The United Kingdom

September 01, 1979

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http://www.granta.com/

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Short Stories, Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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Granta magazine was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, a periodical of student politics, student badinage and student literary enterprise, named after the river that runs through the town. 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 ran into trouble – dwindling money, mounting apathy – from which it was rescued by a small group of postgraduates who successfully and surprisingly relaunched it as a magazine of new writing, with both writers and their audience drawn from the world beyond Cambridge.

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Interview: Granta Portugal

Today marks the launch of Granta Portugal, with its first issue, themed ‘Me’, released just in time for the Lisbon Book Fair. Editor Carlos Vaz Marques spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why they have decided to keep most its contents a secret, his three favourite novels about Lisbon and how publishers are helping to strike up dialogue between Portuguese and Brazilian writers.

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	Granta 112: Pakistan by Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, John Freeman 3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 117: Horror by Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, John Freeman (Editor) 3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists by Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, John Freeman (Editor) 3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 97: Best of Young American Novelists 2 by Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, Ian Jack (Editor) 3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 100 ratings — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 115: The F Word by Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, John Freeman (Editor), A.L. Kennedy (Contributor) 3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 108: Chicago by Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, John Freeman (Editor) 3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 120: Medicine by Granta: The Magazine of New Writing (Editor), John Freeman (Editor) 3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 119: Britain by Granta: The Magazine of New Writing (Editor), John Freeman (Editor) 3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 110: Sex by Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, John Freeman (Editor) 3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 118: Exit Strategies by Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, John Freeman (Editor), Alice Munro (Contributor) 3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars