The Perseverance, using the writer’s experience of deafness to explore human communication, was praised by judges as ‘exceptionally brave and kind’

Tips, features and interviews with the authors and translators of this year's prize

‘You could not get a decent cup of coffee anywhere in the British Isles.’

‘Zanele Muholi is a photographer, often described as one of the most powerful visual activists of our time, and a long-time advocate for their black LGBTQ+ community.’

‎Show The Libreria Podcast, Ep Josh Cohen and Ottessa Moshfegh - 3 Apr 2019

‘Miss Lynch teaches us such things. Things that are difficult to know.’

‘It is important to establish, before this begins, that I never thought of myself as an animal person.’

To mark our 40th birthday, Granta is taking over the beautiful Teatulia Tea Bar in Covent...

Now celebrating its centenary, the O. Henry Prize Stories anthology, edited by Laura Furman, presents the 2019 winners of the prize for short fiction. The anthology will be published this fall, via…

‘To break our trust in these memories would be a cruel thing; to question their veracity, equally cruel.’ Elena Lappin in 'The Man With Two Heads' in Granta 66: Truth + Lies.

‘For me, narratives are always tied to and emerging from other narratives; there is no single beginning, no origin.’

An excerpt from Sven Lindqvist’s Exterminate All the Brutes, translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate.

‘It wasn’t until the end of dinner, when my aunt started clearing and my grandmother demanded another bottle of wine, that I began to understand.’

‘I longed for poems to meet me in my sorrow and help me know how to live in that new world, how to survive it.’

‘Alan was adept at not answering questions, but actually he rarely needed to, because I never asked them.’

‘Perfect totalitarian systems have always been in the vanguard: they modify not only the past and the future, but they also abolish the present.’

‘My childhood was pierced not only by the violence in Kosovo but also by the violence my immigrant family was confronted with in Finland.’

It’s 1979. The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, China introduces its one-child policy, Margaret Thatcher is...

‘Characteristically my wife refused to be drawn into the situation while I became obsessed with it.’

‘You do not understand. In this country one understands nothing.’

‘I wanted to see a communist victory, which I presumed to be inevitable. I wanted to see the fall of a city.’

‘It was a harsh and brutal puberty: the tiny creatures began to fret, as if an inner sense had forewarned them of the torment in store’

‘We were both travelling, he and I: we were travelling in the West. The only difference was that I had actually been there, in person.’

‘Vicky says I’m crazy. She said worse things too last night. But who could blame her?’