Granta

This entry is on the publisher. A stretch of the River Cam is also known as Granta.

Granta Best of Young British Novelists

In 1983, Granta (issue #7) published a list of 20 young British novelists as names to watch out for in the future. Since then, the magazine has repeated the exercise in 1993 (issue #43) and in 2003 (issue #81). In 1996 (issue #54), Granta also published a similar list of promising young American novelists.

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The 1983 List

• Martin Amis
• William Boyd
• Maggie Gee
• Kazuo Ishiguro
• Adam Mars-Jones
• Salman Rushdie
• Julian Barnes
• Ursula Bentley
• Pat Barker
• Buchi Emecheta
• Ian McEwan
• Shiva Naipaul
• Graham Swift
• Rose Tremain
• Clive Sinclair
• Alan Judd
• Philip Norman
• A.N. Wilson
• Christopher Priest
• Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

The 1993 List

• Kazuo Ishiguro
• Hanif Kureishi
• Ben Okri
• Esther Freud
• Caryl Phillips
• Will Self
• Iain Banks
• Adam Lively
• Helen Simpson
• Tibor Fischer
• Nicholas Shakespeare
• Philip Kerr
• Lawrence Norfolk
• Louis de Bernieres
• A.L. Kennedy
• Alan Hollinghurst
• Candia McWilliam
• Anne Billson
• Adam Mars-Jones
• Jeanette Winterson

The 2003 List

• Monica Ali
• Nicola Barker
• Rachel Cusk
• Peter Ho Davies
• Susan Elderkin
• Philip Hensher
• A. L. Kennedy
• Hari Kunzru
• Toby Litt
• David Mitchell
• Andrew O'Hagan
• David Peace
• Dan Rhodes
• Ben Rice
• Rachel Seiffert
• Zadie Smith
• Adam Thirlwell
• Alan Warner
• Sarah Waters
• Robert McLiam Wilson

The 1996 List of American Novelists

• Sherman Alexie
• Madison Smartt Bell
• Ethan Canin
• Edwidge Danticat
• Tom Drury
• Tony Earley
• Jeffrey Eugenides
• Jonathan Franzen
• David Guterson
• David Haynes
• Allen Kurzweil
• Elizabeth McCracken
• Lorrie Moore
• Fay Myenne Ng
• Robert O'Connor
• Chris Offutt
• Stewart O'Nan
• Mona Simpson
• Melanie Rae Thon
• Kate Wheeler