Granta
From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each themed issue of Granta turns the attention of the world’s best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now. Our podcasts bring you readings and in-depth discussions with highly acclaimed authors and rising stars from the quarterly magazine of new writing.
Latest episodes
Dec 7, 2012 • 47min
Sean Borodale: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 43
Granta New Poet Sean Borodale discusses his debut collection Bee Journal, shortlisted for he TS Eliot prize, with online editor Ted Hodgkinson.
Dec 7, 2012 • 48min
Robert Olen Butler: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 42
Robert Olen Butler reads his story 'Banyan' and talks to Ted Hodgkinson about how memory can be like compost and why every story is a search for an identity.
Dec 3, 2012 • 24min
Michel Laub: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 41
Michel Laub reads from his story in Best of Young Brazilian Novelists and discusses trespassing and fathers.
Nov 28, 2012 • 34min
Vinicius Jatoba & Jethro Soutar: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 40
Best of Young Brazilian Novelist Vinicius Jatobá and his translator Jethro Soutar on the challenges and intimacy of translation.
Oct 19, 2012 • 43min
Deborah Levy: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 39
Deborah Levy spoke to Ted Hodgkinson about being shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her novel, Swimming Home.
Oct 18, 2012 • 19min
Alison Moore: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 38
Alison Moore talks to John Freeman about her debut novel, The Lighthouse, which was shortlisted for the Man Booke Prize.
Oct 17, 2012 • 35min
Jeet Thayil: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 37
Jeet Thayil talks to Ted Hodgkinson abot his Booker shortisted novel, Narcopolis.
Oct 16, 2012 • 26min
Tan Twan Eng: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 36
Booker shortlisted author Tan Twan Eng talks to John Freeman about The Garden of Eveing Mists.
Oct 8, 2012 • 51min
D.T. Max: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 35
D.T. Max on his biography: 'Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace'.
Aug 13, 2012 • 28min
Claire Vaye Watkins: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 34
Claire Vaye Watkins on her debut story collection Battleborn, finding ritual in relationships and drawing inspiration from cartoons, mythology and Paul Simon.
