Barker, Barnes, Hollinghurst, Ishiguro, Mitchell, Rushdie, Smith, Tremain, Winterson . . . Long before they were household names, they were Granta Best of Young British Novelists. With each Young Novelist list — in 1983, 1993, and 2003 — came new ways of witnessing the world, introductions to unforgettable characters and mysterious and addictive voices. In 2013, thirty years after the first collection, the magazine asked once again: which writers are setting the bar for a new decade in British literature?
Granta 123: The Best of Young British Novelists 4
Authors: John Freeman, Glen McCready, Kamila Shamsie, Ned Beauman, Tahmima Anam, Naomi Alderman, Nadifa Mohamed, David Szalay, Evie Wyld, Taiye Selasi, Adam Thirlwell, Steven Hall, Adam Foulds, Benjamin Markovits, Joanna Kavenna, Zadie Smith, Sarah Hall, Xiaolu Guo, Helen Oyeyemi, Jenni Fagan, Sunjeev Sahota, Ross Raisin, Sartaj Garewal, Dami Olukoya, David Thorpe, Amelia Cormack, Adam Sims, Jennifer Woodward, Davis Brooks, Rupert Farley
