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Granta
HistoryGranta was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as "The Granta". It was started as a periodical featuring student politics, badinage and literary efforts and was named after the river that runs through the town. An early editor of the magazine was RP Keigwin, the England Cricketer and Danish Scholar. In this form the magazine had both a long and distinguished history. The magazine has published student and early work of various writers who later became well known, including: RebirthDuring the 1970s the publication enountered financial difficulties and increasing levels of student apathy and as a result had to be rescued by a group of interested postgraduates. it was then relaunched in 1979 as a magazine of "new writing" aimed at both both writers and a wider audience than the orignal Cambrdige limited one. Granta has been edited by Ian Jack since 1995. As of September 2004, its circulation was 46,831. It now publishes four times a year a mix of:
Granta Best of Young British NovelistsIn 1983, Granta (issue #7) published a list of 20 young British novelists as names to watch out for in the future. Since then, the magazine has repeated the exercise in 1993 (issue #43) and in 2003 (issue #81). In 1996 (issue #54), Granta also published a similar list of promising young American novelists. The 1983 List
The 1993 List
The 2003 List
The 1996 List of American Novelists
Recent contributorsRecent contributors to the magazine include:
Every issue since 1979 is still in print. Older issues are widely available in used bookstores, as well as directly from the publisher. The publishers state that some of them— Travel (Granta 10) and The Family (Granta 37), for example are "significant contributions to the literature of the English language." See also
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