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Best of Young British Novelists 2023

Octavia Bright discusses Granta's once in a decade list of new writing talent with Sigrid Rausing, Alex Clark, Max Liu and Sophie Macintosh, one of the featured authors.

Publisher and Editor Sigrid Rausing gives an insight into chairing the judges panel for Granta's widely-discussed, once-in-a-decade list of new writing talent, which has previously helped establish the likes of Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith and Salman Rushdie.

Alex Clark and Max Liu interrogate what the purpose of the list serves at a time when 'Young', 'British' and 'Novelist' are increasingly slippery terms, as well as giving some of their recommendations.

And Sophie Macintosh, one of the most widely praised writers included on it, talks about her new novel Cursed Bread.

Presenter: Octavia Bright
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

Granta 163: Best of Young British Novelists 5 (forthcoming)
Dolores by Lauren Aimee Curtis
Chrysalis by Anna Metcalfe (forthcoming)
The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams
Assembly by Natasha Brown
Send Nudes by Saba Sams
We Don't Know What We're Doing by Thomas Morris
In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
little scratch by Rebecca Watson
Mrs S. by K Patrick
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh
Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh

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28 minutes

Last on

Thu 20 Apr 2023 15:30

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  • Self Esteem

    Wizardry (Block Them Edit)

    • Fiction Records.
  • Gabriels

    Love And Hate In A Different Time

    • GABRIEL.
  • Pulp

    Babies

    • Island.
  • Grace Jones

    Pull Up To The Bumper

    • Island.

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  • Sun 16 Apr 2023 16:00
  • Thu 20 Apr 2023 15:30

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