As you probably know, once a decade Granta unveils a selection of what they consider to be the 20 best British novelists under the age of forty. Today the new list came out, and the next issue will contain a selection from each of the following authors.
- Naomi Alderman
- Tahmima Anam
- Ned Beauman
- Jenni Fagan
- Adam Foulds
- Xiaolu Guo
- Sarah Hall
- Steven Hall
- Joanna Kavenna
- Benjamin Markovits
- Nadifa Mohamed
- Helen Oyeyemi
- Ross Raisin
- Sunjeev Sahota
- Taiye Selasi
- Kamila Shamsie
- Zadie Smith
- David Szalay
- Adam Thirlwell
- Evie Wyld
The only novel I’ve reviewed from any of the above authors is Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows (review here [1]). It will be interesting to track these careers to see which of these young authors meet these high expectations.
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