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‘I don’t remember much of my childhood, but I do remember this: I was seven years old and my father had died.’ Fiction by Johanne Lykke Holm, translated by Saskia Vogel. granta.com/wake/
Wake | Johanne Lykke Holm | Granta
‘The guests came up, in pairs or one by one, and stuck their head down in the coffin. I sat on my stool, listening.’ A story by Johanne Lykke Holm, translated by Saskia Vogel.
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‘I, Helga Mork (49), have a feeling something’s going on, only I don’t know what it is.’ Fiction by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated by Kari Dickson. granta.com/here-comes-t...
Here Comes the Sun | Gunnhild Øyehaug | Granta
‘I, Helga Mork (49), have a feeling something’s going on, only I don’t know what it is.’ Fiction by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated by Kari Dickson.
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‘Ágúst trembles with anger and sorrow as he tells about the arrest of Christ, the interrogation, the violence, the judgment.’ Fiction by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton. granta.com/on-eternity-...
On Eternity and Nail Sizes | Jón Kalman Stefánsson | Granta
‘Ágúst begins retelling the Gospels with such gusto that we soon become convinced that he was not only present at those great and matchless events, but also took part in them.’ Fiction by Jón Kalman…
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The inaugural issue of Hyphen journal published this month. The biannual journal publishes work translated from Indian languages into English, and was founded by Vivek Shanbhag and Deepa Ganesh, who featured in Granta 173: India. the-hyphen.in
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‘Ágúst begins retelling the Gospels with such gusto that we soon become convinced that he was not only present at those great and matchless events, but also took part in them.’ Fiction by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton. granta.com/on-eternity-...
On Eternity and Nail Sizes | Jón Kalman Stefánsson | Granta
‘Ágúst begins retelling the Gospels with such gusto that we soon become convinced that he was not only present at those great and matchless events, but also took part in them.’ Fiction by Jón Kalman…
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‘It’s not a good sign to dream that you’re standing in a river, but it is a good sign to have sex with your livestock.’ Fiction by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated by Kari Dickson. granta.com/here-comes-t...
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Lamorna Ash recommends GIRLING by Eve Esfandiari-Denney for @grantamag.bsky.social's 'Summer Reads': granta.com/summer-reads... GIRLING publishes in September.
@grantamag.bsky.social and its writers have some summer reading recommendations. Includes— John Berger Tove Jansson Vladimir Sorokin's short stories (careful) Vasily Grossman's WWII journalism Hardwick's Sleepless Nights Szabó's The Fawn
Summer Reads
not at the beach
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Granta contributors, friends and staff share what they are reading this summer. granta.com/summer-reads...
‘Ágúst begins retelling the Gospels with such gusto that we soon become convinced that he was not only present at those great and matchless events, but also took part in them.’ Fiction by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton. granta.com/on-eternity-...
On Eternity and Nail Sizes | Jón Kalman Stefánsson | Granta
‘Ágúst begins retelling the Gospels with such gusto that we soon become convinced that he was not only present at those great and matchless events, but also took part in them.’ Fiction by Jón Kalman…
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‘He teases her and says she loves the accounts. And she really does. The way the numbers make sense and can make everything resolve.’ Fiction by Ditte Holm Bro, translated by Sherilyn Hellberg. granta.com/every-time-y...
Every Time You Breathe, You Inhale the Dust from Our Bones | Ditte Holm Bro | Granta
‘Johanne is standing in the wings, turning the wheels.’ Fiction by Ditte Holm Bro, translated by Sherilyn Hellberg.
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‘The thought of her own money. Money that wasn’t for household costs, money that was hers alone, little doses of freedom.’ Fiction by Ditte Holm Bro, translated by Sherilyn Hellberg. granta.com/every-time-y...
Every Time You Breathe, You Inhale the Dust from Our Bones | Ditte Holm Bro | Granta
‘Johanne is standing in the wings, turning the wheels.’ Fiction by Ditte Holm Bro, translated by Sherilyn Hellberg.
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‘He asked me to take his laptop home from the hospital for him. He dictated the password to me and then fell very silent.’ Fiction by Krisztina Tóth, translated by Owen Good. granta.com/i-want-you-t...
I Want You to Do Something for Me | Krisztina Tóth | Granta
‘He asked me to take his laptop home from the hospital for him. He dictated the password to me and then fell very silent.’ Fiction by Krisztina Tóth, translated from the Hungarian by Owen Good.
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An absolute joy to see this story -- I Want You to Do Something for Me -- which I translated for the excellent Krisztina Tóth now online at @grantamag.bsky.social! If you like it, then do check out our new short story collection White Wolf from @seagullbooks.bsky.social.
Granta@grantamag.bsky.social · 4w ago‘We’re fine as we are, he said, what do we need kids for? And then time passed and eventually we couldn’t.’ Fiction by Krisztina Tóth, translated from the Hungarian by Owen Good. granta.com/i-want-you-t...
‘A single incorrectly copied number can determine whether the accounts balance out. And the worst, Johanne knows, is when the accounts don’t balance out, the humiliation of unpicking the seams.’ Fiction by Ditte Holm Bro, translated by Sherilyn Hellberg. granta.com/every-time-y...
Every Time You Breathe, You Inhale the Dust from Our Bones | Ditte Holm Bro | Granta
‘Johanne is standing in the wings, turning the wheels.’ Fiction by Ditte Holm Bro, translated by Sherilyn Hellberg.
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‘We’re fine as we are, he said, what do we need kids for? And then time passed and eventually we couldn’t.’ Fiction by Krisztina Tóth, translated from the Hungarian by Owen Good. granta.com/i-want-you-t...
I Want You to Do Something for Me | Krisztina Tóth | Granta
‘He asked me to take his laptop home from the hospital for him. He dictated the password to me and then fell very silent.’ Fiction by Krisztina Tóth, translated from the Hungarian by Owen Good.
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‘I have a key to the flat, but I haven’t been since.’ Fiction by Krisztina Tóth, translated from the Hungarian by Owen Good. granta.com/i-want-you-t...
I Want You to Do Something for Me | Krisztina Tóth | Granta
‘He asked me to take his laptop home from the hospital for him. He dictated the password to me and then fell very silent.’ Fiction by Krisztina Tóth, translated from the Hungarian by Owen Good.
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‘This is how I live: on a small street high up a hill. To the left of my house is a glacial erratic, to the right an empty house. In short: stone, me, emptiness.’ Fiction by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated by Kari Dickson. granta.com/here-comes-t...
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‘UFC is what America wants to be: A true meritocracy, where, if you were competent, and especially if you were competent and belligerent, you’d be rewarded.’ Jordan Castro watches seven cage fights on the White House lawn. granta.com/america-250/
‘When Fosse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2023, he was often described in the press as a writer of a “minority language”, but just what that meant was often obscure to anyone outside of Norway.’ Damion Searls on translating Fosse and Nynorsk, a Norwegian language. granta.com/the-other-no...
The Other Norwegian
‘When Fosse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2023, he was often described in the press as a writer of a “minority language”, but just what that meant was often obscure to anyone outside of Norway...
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‘I, Helga Mork (49), have a feeling something’s going on, only I don’t know what it is.’ Fiction by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated by Kari Dickson. granta.com/here-comes-t...
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‘Mathias hadn’t realized that if there is a crazy woman in any story, at any point in time and under any circumstances whatsoever, then I will always be on her side.’ Fiction by Amalie Langballe, translated by Hunter Simpson. granta.com/disappearing...
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‘You cannot possibly explain life in a scientific or positivistic or materialistic way. There’s a space for art, and for literature. It’s the space for religion.’ Merve Emre speaks to Marilynne Robinson and Jon Fosse about religious belief and making art. granta.com/the-god-dime...
The God Dimension | Jon Fosse & Marilynne Robinson | Granta
‘If you write doctrine, then you’re a bad writer. If you have some talent as a writer, you don’t do that. You create a universe.’
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No writer of our time is more in tune with the repetitive and incantatory power of words than Jon Fosse. Fosse has featured in Granta many times over the years, and returned in Granta 175, with a ludic account of an unsettling stay in a hotel. granta.com/vaim-hotel/
Vaim Hotel | Jon Fosse | Granta
‘The Vaim Hotel and The Vaim Restaurant and The Vaim General Store, yes, everything was kind of odd, and I wasn’t so sure whether I liked it or not’ Fiction by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls.
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‘it was as good a word as any for this very wonderful and lively but still not-yet- fully-human being that was sleepily smacking its lips on their chest’ Fiction by Jonas Eika, translated by Sherilyn Hellberg. granta.com/the-forest-k...
The Forest Kindergartners | Jonas Eika | Granta
‘it was as good a word as any for this very wonderful and lively but still not-yet- fully-human being that was sleepily smacking its lips on their chest’ Fiction by Jonas Eika, translated by Sherilyn…
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‘I’m losing patience / with the concept / of money’ Poetry by Asta Olivia Nordenhof, translated by Caroline Waight. granta.com/untitled-nor...
Untitled | Asta Olivia Nordenhof | Granta
‘I left the brothel / when I got my first writing grant / I could hardly wrap my head around / the hundred grand in my account’
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‘The joy of being religious is that you discipline yourself in seeing more deeply than you would otherwise see.’ Merve Emre speaks to Marilynne Robinson and Jon Fosse about the impact of a religious education. granta.com/the-god-dime...
The God Dimension | Jon Fosse & Marilynne Robinson | Granta
‘If you write doctrine, then you’re a bad writer. If you have some talent as a writer, you don’t do that. You create a universe.’
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‘In all great art, and in all great literature, you have this connection. You can see God in it. It isn’t about the subject or the doctrine or the theory. It’s about quality.’ Marilynne Robinson and Jon Fosse discuss theology, religion and writing with Merve Emre. granta.com/the-god-dime...
The God Dimension | Jon Fosse & Marilynne Robinson | Granta
‘If you write doctrine, then you’re a bad writer. If you have some talent as a writer, you don’t do that. You create a universe.’
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‘As a child I had a very strong notion that objects around me could have agency or be alive. Not in a religious way, but in a visceral, sensory way.’ Olga Ravn on the Granta podcast, available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. granta.com/podcast-olga...
Podcast | Olga Ravn | Granta
'Intelligence and consciousness are two very different things.' Olga Ravn on technology, its relationship with humanity, and Tove Ditlevsen's influence.
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‘As the years go by, you get older. Your body decays, your youth departs like rats from a sinking ship. You start to notice the feeling of having a skeleton inside you.’ Three stories by Dag Solstad, translated by Damion Searls. granta.com/three-storie...
Three Stories | Dag Solstad | Granta
‘When Agnar Berger unlocks his car door and climbs in, it’s like crawling into some part of himself.’ Three stories by Dag Solstad, translated by Damion Searls.
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