[ebooktalk] Re: FW: Granta list of new writers
- From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:19:49 +0100
Shell,
I have heard interviews with a couple of the women writers - Naomi Alderman
and Taia Silassi. I have read one and a half novels by Zadie Smith, but
didn't care for either of them and won't be reading any more.
Trish.
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Thanks Trish,
I haven't heard of many of those authors, though I have fancied trying
Ross Raisin for a while.
Shell.
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From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:28 PM
To: "Ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] FW: Granta list of new writers
> I thought this might be of interest. There is more information about
all
> the writers on the audible.co.uk website.
> Trish.
> Women writers in the ascendant in Granta's once-a-decade Best of Young
> British Novelists list
>
>
>
>
> Nick Clark
>
>
>
> Monday, 15 April 2013
>
> The future of women's fiction looks bright as the once-a-decade list of
best
> young British authors was dominated, for the first time in its 40-year
> history, by female authors.
>
>
>
> Literary magazine Granta yesterday published the fourth in its landmark
> series of the Best of Young British Talent.
>
>
>
> The 20-strong list of novelists was made up of 12 women, up from eight
on
> the previous list a decade earlier the highest so fare.
>
>
>
> Jonathan Ruppin, web editor at book shop Foyles, said: "This is the
first
> time there has been a majority of women. For a long time women have
bought
> a lot of fiction. As a lot more women are reading, so a lot more are
> writing."
>
>
>
> "This list is a reflection that there are a hell of a lot of women
writers
> out there, many of whom have been unrecognised so far," he said: "I am
> reading many more interesting debuts from women at the moment."
>
>
>
> The Granta list has been famed for picking future literary stars. Alumni
> include Sir Salman Rushdie, Rose Tremain, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and
AL
> Kennedy.
>
>
>
> The class of 2013 includes two who made the list a decade ago in Zadie
> Smith, author of NW and winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, and Adam
> Thirlwell.
>
>
>
> New names selected include Taiye Selasi, whose debut novel Ghana Must Go
> caused a sensation on its release last month, Benjamin Markovits, a
former
> professional basketball player in Germany, and Naomi Alderman. As well
as
> writing three novels, she co-created fitness application Zombies, Run!.
>
>
>
> John Freeman, the editor of Granta, said: "From satirists to humourists
to
> sweeping epic-spinners, these writers have a command of language and
their
> form which is simply astonishing." He added: "They show that the novel
has a
> bold and brilliant future in Britain."
>
>
>
> All of the authors are British citizens - except Kamila Shamsie who is
in
> the process of getting citizenship - but many have backgrounds from all
over
> the world. From Somalia and China, to Texas and Karachi.
>
>
>
> Mr Ruppin said: "This list does reflect the ethnic diversity of British
> writing. It reflects that publishing is opening up to talented writers
from
> different backgrounds."
>
>
>
> It includes Xiaolu Guo, who grew up in a small fishing village in
southern
> China with no access to books, who has written novels in Chinese and
> English. Nadifa Mohamed, who was born in Somalia in 1981 and moved to
London
> five years later, made the longlist for the Orange prize for Black Mamba
> Boy.
>
>
>
> Mr Ruppin said: "In terms of reputation, this list does a huge amount.
It
> can be tough for a young author to follow up a first time book, but this
is
> about the writer."
>
>
>
> The youngest to make the list was 28-year-old Ned Beauman, whose second
> novel The Teleportation Accident was longlisted for the Man Booker
Prize.
>
>
>
> Only a few months older is Helen Oyeyemi, who wrote The Icarus Girl
while
> studying for her A levels and is working on her fifth novel.
>
>
>
> Sunjeev Sahota had not read a novel until he was 18, picking up Granta
> alumnus Sir Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children in an airport on the
way to
> visit relatives in India. His novel Ours are the Streets was published
in
> 2011.
>
>
>
> Other names include poet and novelist Adam Foulds, Evie Wyld, who runs
an
> independent bookshop in Peckham and Sarah Hall, who has written four
novels
> including one that made the Booker shortlist, and who Mr Ruppin has
> earmarked as a literary star.
>
>
>
> Granta Best of Young British Novelists: the list in full
>
> Naomi Alderman
>
>
>
> Tahmima Anam
>
>
>
> Ned Beauman
>
>
>
> Jenni Fagan
>
>
>
> Adam Foulds
>
>
>
> Xiaolu Guo
>
>
>
> Sarah Hall
>
>
>
> Steven Hall
>
>
>
> Joanna Kavenna
>
>
>
> Benjamin Markovits
>
>
>
> Nadifa Mohamed
>
>
>
> Helen Oyeyemi
>
>
>
> Ross Raisin
>
>
>
> Sunjeev Sahota
>
>
>
> Taiye Selasi
>
>
>
> Kamila Shamsie
>
>
>
> Zadie Smith
>
>
>
> David Szalay
>
>
>
> Adam Thirlwell
>
>
>
> Evie Wyld
>
>
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