Granta’s Best Young Novelists
Great new website has launched at www.bestyoungnovelists.com. I’m liking the design a lot.
Prettiness aside, this is a great place to visit and get inspiration for Must-Read-Before-I-Die kind of lists. Last week Granta in New York unveiled its second-ever list of Best of Young American Novelists, comprised of 21 American-based authors aged 35 and under, and this is the result. (Granta made its first selection of American novelists in 1996.) More information about the significance of the list here.
A small, shameless boast: We think that Fourth Estate has the highest number of authors on the list out of the UK publishers.
Daniel Alarcón - Fourth Estate -Harper Collins
Kevin Brockmeier - John Murray - Pantheon
Judy Budnitz – Fourth Estate - Alfred A. Knopf
Christopher Coake - Viking - Harcourt
Anthony Doerr - Fourth Estate - Scribner
Jonathan Safran Foer - Hamish Hamilton - Houghton Mifflin
Nell Freudenberger - Picador - Ecco
Olga Grushin - Viking - Putnam/Marian Wood
Dara Horn - Hamish Hamilton - W. W. Norton
Gabe Hudson - - Alfred A. Knopf
Uzodimna Iweala - John Murray - Harper Collins
Nicole Krauss - Viking - W. W. Norton
Rattawut Lapcharoensap - Atlantic - Grove Atlantic
Yiyun Li - Fourth Estate - Random House
Maile Meloy - John Murray - Scribner
ZZ Packer - Canongate - Riverhead
Jess Row - - Dial Press
Karen Russell - Chatto & Windus - Alfred A. Knopf
Akhil Sharma - Faber & Faber - FSG
Gary Shteyngart - Granta - Random House
John Wray - Chatto & Windus - Alfred A. Knopf
Hot tip for next time’s Granta list if it comes before he his 35: Rudy Delson. This weekend I read a manuscript pressed into my hands by Fourth Estate editors Jack Fogg and Nick Pearson. The title is Maynard and Jennica by US novelist Rudy Delson. And…wow. It’s a very smart, very comic love story set in and around New York. I can honestly say I enjoyed it more than anything I’ve read this year - smart, witty, compelling and orginal and reminiscent of Jonathan Safran Foer or maybe Dave Eggers. Can’t wait for September so you can read it too. (I’ll try to get some earlier copies if anyone here wants a sneak preview, so let me know….)
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