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We are pleased to reveal the cover and contributors to Granta 174: Therapy.
We live in a therapeutic age. In this issue, writers explore the talking cure and alternative forms of therapy.
The issue publishes 12 February 2026.
We live in a therapeutic age. In this issue, writers explore the talking cure and alternative forms of therapy.
The issue publishes 12 February 2026.
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We are pleased to reveal the cover and contributors to Granta 174: Therapy.
We live in a therapeutic age. In this issue, writers explore the talking cure and alternative forms of therapy.
The issue publishes 12 February 2026.
We live in a therapeutic age. In this issue, writers explore the talking cure and alternative forms of therapy.
The issue publishes 12 February 2026.
January 21, 2026 at 4:02 PM
We are pleased to reveal the cover and contributors to Granta 174: Therapy.
We live in a therapeutic age. In this issue, writers explore the talking cure and alternative forms of therapy.
The issue publishes 12 February 2026.
We live in a therapeutic age. In this issue, writers explore the talking cure and alternative forms of therapy.
The issue publishes 12 February 2026.
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At Granta, Aatish Taseer has a thoughtful essay on the small, yet all-defining, distinctions between the Urdu of Pakistan and the Hindi of India: "two fluid, shape-shifting sisters, yin and yang, each containing a measure of the other" granta.com/urdu/
Urdu
‘The word I used – janamdin, not saalgira – gave me away as someone who could only have grown up in India.’ Aatish Taseer on Urdu, Hindi and the cultural intricacies of sister languages.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:51 PM
At Granta, Aatish Taseer has a thoughtful essay on the small, yet all-defining, distinctions between the Urdu of Pakistan and the Hindi of India: "two fluid, shape-shifting sisters, yin and yang, each containing a measure of the other" granta.com/urdu/
‘Slowly we had developed a ritual. My mother liked to have a cup of tea, be steam pressed, and then placed into the bag every night. Her bones ached and she said that she was looking for respite.’
Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
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Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
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Folding Your Mother | Bhavika Govil | Granta
‘Slowly we had developed a ritual. My mother liked to have a cup of tea, be steam pressed, and then placed into the bag every night. Her bones ached and she said that she was looking for respite.’
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January 21, 2026 at 4:34 PM
‘Slowly we had developed a ritual. My mother liked to have a cup of tea, be steam pressed, and then placed into the bag every night. Her bones ached and she said that she was looking for respite.’
Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
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Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
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We are pleased to reveal the cover and contributors to Granta 174: Therapy.
We live in a therapeutic age. In this issue, writers explore the talking cure and alternative forms of therapy.
The issue publishes 12 February 2026.
We live in a therapeutic age. In this issue, writers explore the talking cure and alternative forms of therapy.
The issue publishes 12 February 2026.
January 21, 2026 at 4:02 PM
We are pleased to reveal the cover and contributors to Granta 174: Therapy.
We live in a therapeutic age. In this issue, writers explore the talking cure and alternative forms of therapy.
The issue publishes 12 February 2026.
We live in a therapeutic age. In this issue, writers explore the talking cure and alternative forms of therapy.
The issue publishes 12 February 2026.
‘Ko Samui looks like it has been raised over the rubble of fishing villages. A shiny skein of roads, resorts, shops and eateries fist the island. Everywhere else, coconut trees.’
Fiction by Duboree Das.
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Fiction by Duboree Das.
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Hoesamuis | Duboree Das | Granta
‘After a conversation with her gynaecologist who shares the same name, Mandovi is diagnosed with a UTI. Doctor Mandovi tells Mandovi it’s normal, that she shouldn’t feel any shame, which makes…
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January 19, 2026 at 7:02 PM
‘Ko Samui looks like it has been raised over the rubble of fishing villages. A shiny skein of roads, resorts, shops and eateries fist the island. Everywhere else, coconut trees.’
Fiction by Duboree Das.
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Fiction by Duboree Das.
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Here are three sample poems of Priya Bains’ work in GRANTA, translated by Alex from Norwegian. 🙏🏼
Here are three sample poems of Priya Bains’ work in GRANTA, translated by Alex from Norwegian. 🙏🏼
Three Poems
‘the day after a disappearance / the uncles are tired and hushed / spending lunch breaks in their cars’ Three poems by Priya Bains, translated by Alex Mepham.
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December 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Here are three sample poems of Priya Bains’ work in GRANTA, translated by Alex from Norwegian. 🙏🏼
Here are three sample poems of Priya Bains’ work in GRANTA, translated by Alex from Norwegian. 🙏🏼
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I just realized Granta has a collection of stories on their site. Cute 1 pager from Italo Calvino:
"There was once a country where everyone was a thief.
At night each inhabitant went out armed with a crowbar and a lantern, and broke into a neighbour’s house..."
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"There was once a country where everyone was a thief.
At night each inhabitant went out armed with a crowbar and a lantern, and broke into a neighbour’s house..."
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The Black Sheep
‘And then one day – nobody knows how – an honest man appeared.’ Fiction by Italo Calvino in Granta 46: Crime.
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January 6, 2026 at 5:25 PM
I just realized Granta has a collection of stories on their site. Cute 1 pager from Italo Calvino:
"There was once a country where everyone was a thief.
At night each inhabitant went out armed with a crowbar and a lantern, and broke into a neighbour’s house..."
granta.com/the-black-sh...
"There was once a country where everyone was a thief.
At night each inhabitant went out armed with a crowbar and a lantern, and broke into a neighbour’s house..."
granta.com/the-black-sh...
‘Every few hours, after hanging the foldable bag in our bedroom wardrobe, I pressed my ear close to the plastic to listen to the sound of her breathing.’
Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
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Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
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Folding Your Mother | Bhavika Govil | Granta
‘Slowly we had developed a ritual. My mother liked to have a cup of tea, be steam pressed, and then placed into the bag every night. Her bones ached and she said that she was looking for respite.’
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January 14, 2026 at 4:33 PM
‘Every few hours, after hanging the foldable bag in our bedroom wardrobe, I pressed my ear close to the plastic to listen to the sound of her breathing.’
Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
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Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
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‘Outside Karma Resort, there is a large, gilded mirror framed in plastic grass. Reflected in it are the Hoesamuis as they take a selfie. The flash captures them frozen between smile and shock. They christen it retro.’
Fiction by Duboree Das.
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Fiction by Duboree Das.
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Hoesamuis | Duboree Das | Granta
‘After a conversation with her gynaecologist who shares the same name, Mandovi is diagnosed with a UTI. Doctor Mandovi tells Mandovi it’s normal, that she shouldn’t feel any shame, which makes…
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January 14, 2026 at 2:05 PM
‘Outside Karma Resort, there is a large, gilded mirror framed in plastic grass. Reflected in it are the Hoesamuis as they take a selfie. The flash captures them frozen between smile and shock. They christen it retro.’
Fiction by Duboree Das.
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Fiction by Duboree Das.
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Gosh, took a break from writing to read this. Powerful, skilful writing by a new writer to me - Bhavika Govil. Will look out for more of her work. 🤩
‘I zipped my mother up night after night and watched her slip into oblivion.’
Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
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Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
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Folding Your Mother | Bhavika Govil | Granta
‘Slowly we had developed a ritual. My mother liked to have a cup of tea, be steam pressed, and then placed into the bag every night. Her bones ached and she said that she was looking for respite.’
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January 9, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Gosh, took a break from writing to read this. Powerful, skilful writing by a new writer to me - Bhavika Govil. Will look out for more of her work. 🤩
‘Didn’t she know that the world was standing on its heels to punish a girl who had grown beyond her limits?’
A short story by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Deepa Ganesh.
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A short story by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Deepa Ganesh.
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Sudheer’s Mother | Vivek Shanbhag | Granta
‘She had resolved to get married to anyone they found and seek her own calling later.’
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January 12, 2026 at 1:08 PM
‘Didn’t she know that the world was standing on its heels to punish a girl who had grown beyond her limits?’
A short story by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Deepa Ganesh.
granta.com/sudheers-mot...
A short story by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Deepa Ganesh.
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‘I zipped my mother up night after night and watched her slip into oblivion.’
Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
granta.com/folding-your...
Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
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Folding Your Mother | Bhavika Govil | Granta
‘Slowly we had developed a ritual. My mother liked to have a cup of tea, be steam pressed, and then placed into the bag every night. Her bones ached and she said that she was looking for respite.’
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January 9, 2026 at 11:05 AM
‘I zipped my mother up night after night and watched her slip into oblivion.’
Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
granta.com/folding-your...
Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
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‘There is a surety in it, like swans on a pond. However long the diversion, however delightful or distracting, the second bracket will always appear.’
Rebecca Perry on parentheses.
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Rebecca Perry on parentheses.
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Tolerable Disorder | Granta
‘There is a loveliness, I think, in the existence of brackets as a pair.’ Rebecca Perry on parentheses.
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January 8, 2026 at 12:02 PM
‘There is a surety in it, like swans on a pond. However long the diversion, however delightful or distracting, the second bracket will always appear.’
Rebecca Perry on parentheses.
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Rebecca Perry on parentheses.
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‘Where once existed a sixty-five-year-old somewhat heavy-set woman with thin-framed spectacles and hair only slightly greying at the sides, there was now a compressed and gleaming plastic bag.’
Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
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Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
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Folding Your Mother | Bhavika Govil | Granta
‘Slowly we had developed a ritual. My mother liked to have a cup of tea, be steam pressed, and then placed into the bag every night. Her bones ached and she said that she was looking for respite.’
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January 7, 2026 at 4:31 PM
‘Where once existed a sixty-five-year-old somewhat heavy-set woman with thin-framed spectacles and hair only slightly greying at the sides, there was now a compressed and gleaming plastic bag.’
Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
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Fiction by Bhavika Govil.
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'Great Nicobar could not be understood from Great Nicobar. It had to be understood from far-off places like Mumbai and Delhi.’
Amitava Kumar on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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Amitava Kumar on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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Children’s Tales | Amitava Kumar | Granta
‘The voiceover said that while the earliest prisoners sent to the island were dangerous criminals, a new brand of inmates at the Cellular Jail were revolutionaries – they came to prison “as if they…
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January 7, 2026 at 2:26 PM
'Great Nicobar could not be understood from Great Nicobar. It had to be understood from far-off places like Mumbai and Delhi.’
Amitava Kumar on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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Amitava Kumar on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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‘The footage of Modi’s dive, however, only shows the submerged prime minister; nothing of the submerged city.’
Raghu Karnad on the relationship between archaeology and nationalism.
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Raghu Karnad on the relationship between archaeology and nationalism.
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Under the Ruins | Raghu Karnad | Granta
‘The footage of Modi’s dive, however, only shows the submerged prime minister; nothing of the submerged city.’ Raghu Karnad on the Mahabharata and the relationship between archeology and nationalism.
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January 6, 2026 at 2:22 PM
‘The footage of Modi’s dive, however, only shows the submerged prime minister; nothing of the submerged city.’
Raghu Karnad on the relationship between archaeology and nationalism.
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Raghu Karnad on the relationship between archaeology and nationalism.
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‘This mania with banning and censorship goes back a long way, and concerns both books and films. Repressive colonial habits die hard.’
Granta interviews Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Indian history, literature, and his intellectual trajectory.
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Granta interviews Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Indian history, literature, and his intellectual trajectory.
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Indian Temptations | Sanjay Subrahmanyam | Granta
‘I understand that there is a temptation to bring everything in India, whether it’s literature, music or art, around to its relationship to nationalism. But as my friends in the art world have always…
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January 5, 2026 at 3:30 PM
‘This mania with banning and censorship goes back a long way, and concerns both books and films. Repressive colonial habits die hard.’
Granta interviews Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Indian history, literature, and his intellectual trajectory.
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Granta interviews Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Indian history, literature, and his intellectual trajectory.
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‘With no doctors, no electricity, no running water, no paved roads, no functioning school, and no sewage system – the insurgents were not so much co-opting a society as building one.’
Snigdha Poonam visits Jharkhand and the Naxalites.
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Snigdha Poonam visits Jharkhand and the Naxalites.
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The Thin Red Corridor | Snigdha Poonam | Granta
‘There is no comfort in driving down a road once lined with landmines, even if your companion is the one who put them there.’ Snigdha Poonam meets an Adivasi Maoist who shows her how the state has…
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January 4, 2026 at 2:45 PM
‘With no doctors, no electricity, no running water, no paved roads, no functioning school, and no sewage system – the insurgents were not so much co-opting a society as building one.’
Snigdha Poonam visits Jharkhand and the Naxalites.
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Snigdha Poonam visits Jharkhand and the Naxalites.
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‘Two men set about undressing him. They led the naked boy by the hand, sat him down on the clay platform, spread their palms across his shoulders, and pressed him down.’
Fiction by Jeyamohan, translated by Priyamvada Ramkumar.
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Fiction by Jeyamohan, translated by Priyamvada Ramkumar.
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Kazhumaadan | Jeyamohan | Granta
‘Two men set about undressing him. They led the naked boy by the hand, sat him down on the clay platform, spread their palms across his shoulders, and pressed him down.’
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January 3, 2026 at 3:30 PM
‘Two men set about undressing him. They led the naked boy by the hand, sat him down on the clay platform, spread their palms across his shoulders, and pressed him down.’
Fiction by Jeyamohan, translated by Priyamvada Ramkumar.
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Fiction by Jeyamohan, translated by Priyamvada Ramkumar.
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'Narendra Modi, seventy-three, had a spherical aquatic helmet placed over his head. He was lowered into the waves.’
Raghu Karnad on Modi and an alleged underwater Hindu archaeological site.
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Raghu Karnad on Modi and an alleged underwater Hindu archaeological site.
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Under the Ruins | Raghu Karnad | Granta
‘The footage of Modi’s dive, however, only shows the submerged prime minister; nothing of the submerged city.’ Raghu Karnad on the Mahabharata and the relationship between archeology and nationalism.
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January 2, 2026 at 2:30 PM
'Narendra Modi, seventy-three, had a spherical aquatic helmet placed over his head. He was lowered into the waves.’
Raghu Karnad on Modi and an alleged underwater Hindu archaeological site.
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Raghu Karnad on Modi and an alleged underwater Hindu archaeological site.
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‘People are inchoate, irrational – constantly on the verge of discovering who they are and then swerving away at the last moment.’
The latest episode of the Granta podcast features Karan Mahajan and is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts now.
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The latest episode of the Granta podcast features Karan Mahajan and is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts now.
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Podcast | Karan Mahajan | Granta
‘People are inchoate, irrational – constantly on the verge of discovering who they are and then swerving away at the last moment.’ Karan Mahajan on writing about politics in fiction, the Khalistani…
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December 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
‘People are inchoate, irrational – constantly on the verge of discovering who they are and then swerving away at the last moment.’
The latest episode of the Granta podcast features Karan Mahajan and is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts now.
granta.com/podcast-kara...
The latest episode of the Granta podcast features Karan Mahajan and is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts now.
granta.com/podcast-kara...
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ICYMI: @grantamag.bsky.social published poems from the Poetry in Translation Prize shortlist. The inaugural winner of the prize will be announced in January 2026. Read them here: granta.com/the-poetry-i...
The Poetry in Translation Prize | 2025 | Granta
The Poetry in Translation Prize, founded by Fitzcarraldo Editions, New Directions and Giramondo, is a...
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December 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
ICYMI: @grantamag.bsky.social published poems from the Poetry in Translation Prize shortlist. The inaugural winner of the prize will be announced in January 2026. Read them here: granta.com/the-poetry-i...
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A Year in Reading 2025 | Granta
Friends and contributors to the magazine share their year in reading.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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In partnership with Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions, Granta is pleased to presents extracts from the eight shortlisted collections for the Poetry in Translation Prize 2025.
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The Poetry in Translation Prize | 2025 | Granta
The Poetry in Translation Prize, founded by Fitzcarraldo Editions, New Directions and Giramondo, is a...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
In partnership with Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions, Granta is pleased to presents extracts from the eight shortlisted collections for the Poetry in Translation Prize 2025.
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Granta magazine is now on Substack. Follow to receive exclusive material, starting with Granta staff’s recommendations on the best books they read this year.
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A Year in Reading, Granta Staff Picks
Granta Staff looks back on what we've read in 2025.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Granta magazine is now on Substack. Follow to receive exclusive material, starting with Granta staff’s recommendations on the best books they read this year.
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