Sigrid Rausing

A searing memoir about the impact of addiction on a family. For years Sigrid Rausing watched helplessly as her brother Hans and his wife Eva succumbed to drug addiction. It afflicted a terrible toll on their family, culminating in Eva's tragic early death. As this death led to an inquest and media circus, the world looked on in horror, but...

When the celebrated Swedish writer Johanna Ekström found out that she was dying from an eye melanoma, she asked her closest friend, Sigrid Rausing, to finish her last book. Rausing transcribed and edited the thirteen handwritten notebooks left by Ekström. The result is a memoir of exceptional depth and intensity, published to critical acclaim in Sweden in 2023. The work...

Since the first Best of Young British Novelists issue in 1983, Granta has championed the work of authors who have changed the landscape of British literature. In 1983, featured writers included Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis, and Pat Barker, among many others. Subsequent editions have highlighted the work of Zadie Smith, Nicola Barker, Ben Okri, Jeanette Winterson,...

Granta 164: Last Notes offers a compelling collection of non-fiction contributions from renowned authors such as Lydia Davis, Brian Dillon, and Peter Englund (translated by Sigrid Rausing). The issue also features works by Diana Evans, Wiam El-Tamami, Tabitha Lasley, Adele Rosenfeld (translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman), Anjan Sundaram, Ed Vulliamy, and Ada Wordsworth. The fiction section includes pieces by Nicola Barker...

This summer issue features fiction by Jesse Ball, Eva Freeman, Okwiri Oduor, Tao Lin, Adam O'Fallon Price, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Kathryn Scanlan and Diane Williams. Granta 156: Interiors includes poetry by Kaveh Akbar, Sasha Debvec-McKenny, Gboyega Odubanjo and Nick Laird, as well as memoir by Chris Dennis, Debra Gwartney, Sandra Newman and Ruchir Joshi. With photography by Robbie Lawrence, introduced by...

Granta 158: In the Family features Fatima Bhutto on her dog Coco, Chris Dennis on parenting, Charif Majdalani (translated by Ruth Diver) on the situation in Beirut, and Will Rees in search of a diagnosis. This winter issue includes fiction by Nathan Harris, Julie Hecht, Sheila Heti, Moses McKenzie, Debbie Urbanski, and Kate Zambreno, as well as poetry by Akwaeke...

Our winter issue features Raymond Antrobus on performer Johnnie Ray, Marina Benjamin on playing professional blackjack, Chanelle Benz on searching for a homeland, Annie Ernaux (translated by Alison L. Strayer) on what affairs can help us bear, Richard Eyre on his grandfathers, Des Fitzgerald on losing his brother, Caspar Henderson on the sounds in space, Amitava Kumar on India today,...

From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now.

This issue features Lindsey Hilsum, author of the award-winning In Extremis, on cholera in Hutu refugee camps; Ian Jack on the toxic slag heaps of Glasgow and the aristocratic lives built on them; memoir by Vidyan Ravinthiran and Rory Gleeson; and poetry by Jason Allen-Paisant and Anthony Anaxagorou. Plus, new fiction from Paul Dalla Rosa, shortlisted for the 2019 Sunday...

Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal connections between siblings. This issue of Granta 161: Sister, Brother tells a different story - one of chaotic hierarchies, a zero-sum game of sibling competition alternating with tenderness; lifelong relationships that nevertheless can sometimes break. Featuring memoir by Sara...

Granta 149 is titled 'New New Europe', marking the UK's departure from the EU, and features a range of commissioned pieces from respected writers on the state of Europe today. This harks back to the 1989 issue New Europe, which was themed around the response to the fall of the Berlin Wall.