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Granta publishes new writing - fiction, personal history, reportage, inquiring journalism and documentary photography.
'Granta 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.
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.' (from http://www.granta.com/about/ - sighted 8/03/04)
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Novel Ways and the Best of British
2013
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17 April 2013; (p. 17) 'Granta's top 20 writers under 40 are a diverse and vital lot...' -
Undercover
2010
single work
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 31 July - 1 August 2010; (p. 35) A column canvassing current literary news including a report on the appointment of Candida Baker as the director of the Byron Bay Writers Festival and news that the UK periodical Granta has opened its archives online.
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Undercover
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 31 July - 1 August 2010; (p. 35) A column canvassing current literary news including a report on the appointment of Candida Baker as the director of the Byron Bay Writers Festival and news that the UK periodical Granta has opened its archives online. -
Novel Ways and the Best of British
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17 April 2013; (p. 17) 'Granta's top 20 writers under 40 are a diverse and vital lot...'