Granta- Best of Young British Novelists-4 (2013)

Im a big fan of Granta magazine.I knew Granta for many years but have not read the book till last year. I subscribed the magazine last year and so far i have received 4 books and all are awesome. I always keep Granta in my bag , where ever i go i take it too. Now the much awaited Granta's Best Young British Novelist list has been released and i was really surprised to see diverse group of writers from different backgrounds.

Here is the list:

1. Naomi Alderman
2. Tahmima Anam
3. Ned Beauman
4. Jenni Fagan
5. Adam Foulds
6. Xiaolu Guo
7. Sarah Hall
8. Steven Hall
9. Joanna Kavenna
10. Benjamin Markovits
11. Nadifa Mohamed
12. Helen Oyeyemi
13. Ross Raisin
14. Sunjeev Sahota - Comment by Salman Rushdie
15. Taiye Selasi
16. Kamila Shamsie
17. Zadie Smith
18. David Szalay
19. Adam Thirlwell
20. Evie Wyld 

Among the above listed authors i knew Zadie Smith and Xiaolu Guo. Good to see many women in the list and from different ethnic background. Sunjeev Sahota - name sounds Indian but im not sure. There is one Bangladeshi origin author(Tahimima Anam) and one Pakistani author (Kamila Shamsie). Hope these writers will enrich the world of literature.

Here is the 2003 Best of Young Novelist List -3:
1. Sarah Waters
2. Monica Ali
3. Andrew O'Hagan
4. Dan Rhodes
5. Rachel Seiffert
6. Toby Litt
7. Rachel Cusk
8. Alan Warner
9. Nicola Barker
10. David Mitchell
11. Susan Elderkin
12. Stephen Gill
13. Peter Ho Davies
14. A.L. Kennedy
15. Ben Rice
16. David Peace
17. Hari Kunzru
18. Philip Hensher
19. Robert McLiam Wilson
20. Zadie Smith
21. Adam Thirlwell 

Here is the 1993 Best of Young British Novelist List -2:
1. Iain Banks
2. Louis de Bernieres
3. Anne Billson
4. Tibor Fischer
5. Esther Freud
6. Alan Holinghurst
7. Kazuo Ishiguro
8. A.L Kennedy
9. Philip Kerr
10. Hanif Kureishi
11. Adam Lively
12. Adam Mars-Jones
13. Candia McWilliam
14. Lawrence Norfolk
15. Ben Okri
16. Caryl Philips
17. Will Shelf
18. Nicholas Shakespeare
19. Helen Simpson
20. Jeanette Winterson

Here is the 1983 Best of Young British Novelist list -1:
1. Martin Amis
2. Pat Barker
3. Julian Barnes
4. Ursula Bentley 
5. William Boyd
6. Buchi Emecheta
7. Maggie Gee
8. Kazuo Ishiguro
9. Alan Judd
10. Adam Mars-Jones
11. Ian McEwan
12. Shiva Naipaul
13. Philip Norman
14. Christopher Priest
15. Salman Rushdie
16. Lisa St.Aubin de Teran
17. Clive Sinclair
18. Graham Swift
19. Rose Tremain
20. A.N. Wilson

Granta had a knack of finding good writers.The above lists gives us some wonderful authors .The issue 121 of Grant published a list of   "The Best Of  Young Brazilian Novelists", will put the list soon.