Granta: The Magazine of New Writing





Granta: The Magazine of New Writing

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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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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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Published on May 23, 2013 05:02
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