In 1979, Bill Buford, a young American graduate, revived an old Cambridge university magazine and created a new home for good writing of all kinds - reportage, fiction, memoir, poetry - as well as photography. In the years (and decades) that followed, Granta established itself as the one of the most prestigious literary publications in the English-speaking world. In that time Granta has published 26 Nobel Prize for Literature winners, defined new literary genres and paved the way for generations of young novelists. To celebrate forty years of brilliant publishing, Granta 147 brings together our best fiction and non-fiction from the last four decades, along with a selection of letters from behind the scenes. This will be a collector's issue and is not to be missed.

Featuring...

Angela Carter

Kazuo Ishiguro

Todd McEwen

Bruce Chatwin

James Fenton

Primo Levi

Amitav Ghosh

Raymond Carver

Philip Roth

John Gregory Dunne

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Joy Williams

Don DeLillo

John Berger

Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez

Bill Buford

Lindsey Hilsum

Lorrie Moore

Hilary Mantel

Ian Jack

Edward Said

Diana Athill

Edmund White

Ved Mehta

Alexandra Fuller

Binyavanga Wainaina

Mary Gaitskill

Lydia Davis

Jeanette Winterson

Herta M�ller