Granta 104: Fathers The Men Who Made Us

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Four years after 'Mothers', Granta 104 sets its sights on fathers. Look out for Hisham Matar on his father, who was kidnapped while living in Egypt and imprisoned by Muammar al-Gaddafi in Libya; Helen Epstein on 'fatherhood' within the prisons of San Francisco; a dictator who has styled himself as the Father of the Nation; Rawi Hage on Beirut, as seen through his father's eyes; becoming a father again in middle age and Junot Diaz on Latin American 'Big Men'. Plus: writers, including Margaret Atwood and Ali Smith, on their favourite pictures of their fathers.

Alex Clark has worked on several national newspapers and has contributed to many publications, notably the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Sunday Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Observer and the Daily Telegraph. She was a judge of Granta's most recent Best of Young British Novelists competition and a judge of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008.