Granta 97: The Best Of Young American Novelists

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This issue features new work by the twenty writers that Granta's judges - including novelists Edmund White and A.M. Homes - have selected as the most interesting, new young voices in American fiction. Granta began its influential 'Best of Young.' series with British novelists in 1983, repeated in 1993 and 2003. In 1996, Granta's first Best of Young American Novelists included Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen and Lorrie Moore. Announced March 2007, the new list is: Daniel Alarc n Kevin Brockmeier Judy Budnitz Christopher Coake Anthony Doerr Jonathan Safran Foer Nell Freudenberger Olga Grushin Dara Horn Gabe Hudson Uzodinma Iweala Nicole Krauss Rattawut Lapcharoensap Yiyun Li Maile Meloy ZZ Packer Jess Row Karen Russell Akhil Sharma Gary Shteyngart John Wray

Ian Jack has edited Granta since 1995. He began his career in journalism on a weekly newspaper in Scotland in the 1960s. Between 1970 and 1986 he worked for the Sunday Times as a reporter, editor, feature writer and foreign correspondent (mainly in the Indian Subcontinent). He was a co-founder of the Independent on Sunday in 1989 and edited that newspaper between 1991 and 1995. His awards in Britain include those for reporter, journalist and editor of the year. A book of his writing about Britain, Before the Oil Ran Out, was published in 1987. He lives with his family in London.

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