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Granta 170: Winners

Essays & Memoir | Issue 170

Mucker Play

Nico Walker

‘When you said so loudly that you were the best, that you were worth the top dollar, then not just every game but every play became important.’

Nico Walker on the rise and fall of American football, from Jim Thorpe to Deion Sanders.

Fiction | Issue 170

Round One

Benjamin Nugent

‘On the day the doctors extracted the eggs from her ovaries, he would have to go into a room in the hospital and produce.’

Fiction by Benjamin Nugent.

Fiction | Issue 170

The First Person

Kathryn Scanlan

‘I picked up a dry leaf, and when the caterpillar climbed aboard, I carried the leaf to the safety of the grass and set it down at the base of a tree.’

Fiction by Kathryn Scanlan.

Art & Photography | Issue 170

Champion

Prarthna Singh & Snigdha Poonam

‘As Prarthna took photographs, I stood in the doorway watching the school-age girls with taut muscles and intense focus lock in bouts across the length of the hall.’

Snigdha Poonam on wrestling and the photography of Prarthna Singh.

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A Good Day

Caryl Churchill

‘I suddenly had one of those I can’t find words for it one of those moments of joy I suppose it is.’

Fiction by Caryl Churchill.

From the Archive

Poetry | Issue 111

Don’t Flinch

Adrienne Rich

‘Lichen-green lines of shingle pulsate and waver / when you lift your eyes. It’s the glare.’

A poem by Adrienne Rich.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 107

Lost Cat

Mary Gaitskill

‘Which deaths are tragic and which are not? Who decides what is big and what is little?’

Memoir by Mary Gaitskill.

Fiction | Issue 17 padlock

October, 1948

Kazuo Ishiguro

‘I remember looking around me with approval that first night, and today, for all the changes which have transformed the world around it, Mrs Kawakamu's remains as pleasing as ever.’

Fiction by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Highlights From Granta Books

Recommended Reading

Fiction | Issue 168 padlock

The Museum Guard

J.M. Coetzee

‘Do they strike people as a strange couple? He does not know, does not care.’

Fiction by J.M. Coetzee.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 167 padlock

Where the Language Changes

Bathsheba Demuth

‘I am on the hunt for the Russian Empire, or what traces might still exist of its colonial enterprise.’

Bathsheba Demuth travels the Yukon river, following the history of the fur trade and the Nulato massacre.

Art & Photography | Issue 165 padlock

Have a Good Trip with Trabant

Martin Roemers & Durs Grünbein

‘Question: ‘What do a Trabant and a condom have in common?’ Answer: ‘Both decrease the pleasure of the ride.’’

Durs Grünbein introduces photography by Martin Roemers.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 166

Lifetimes of the Soviet Union

Yuri Slezkine

‘Bolshevism, like most millenarian movements, proved a one-generation phenomenon.’

Yuri Slezkine on Soviet history and the generational arc of revolution.

News, Prizes and Events

Prize

When I Sing, Mountains Dance and Chilean Poet Shortlisted for Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Sola (trans. Mara Faye Lethem) and Chilean Poet by Alejandro Zambra (trans. Megan McDowell) are both shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.

Prize

Our Share of Night Shortlisted for The Kitschies

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez (trans. Megan McDowell) is shortlisted for The Kitschies Red Tentacle award, awarded to speculative, sci-fi and fantasy novels.

Prize

I’m A Fan Wins a British Book Award

I'm A Fan by Sheena Patel wins the Book of the Year: Discover Award at the British Book Awards.