For the first time in ten years, Granta has revealed its list of the Best of Young British Novelists. Below, we’ve linked to free samples of all 20 novelists.
The winners were chosen from among 150 novelists by a panel of judges: John Freeman, Ellah Allfrey, Romesh Gunesekera, Stuart Kelly, A.L. Kennedy, Sigrid Rausing and Gaby Wood. Here’s more from the release:
At a celebration to be held at the British Council, on the evening of 15 April 2013, Granta will announce its once-in-a-decade selection of the twenty best British novelists aged under forty. Granta’s first generation-defining list of writers was published in 1983 and set the bar for the following decades.
Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall
The Liar’s Gospel by Naomi Alderman
The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna
Childish Loves by Benjamin Markovits
Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
Waterline by Ross Raisin
Ours Are the Streets by Sunjeev Sahota
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
Kartography by Kamila Shamsie
NW by Zadie Smith
Spring by David Szalay
Politics by Adam Thirlwell
After the Fire, A Still, Small Voice by Evie Wyld