Granta nominates best young US novelists

[spindrifter]

Richard Lea
Monday March 5, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

Granta magazine has unveiled its second list of the best young American novelists - a mixture of authors already familiar on this side of the Atlantic, such as Guardian first book award winners Jonathan Safran Foer and Yiyun Li, and those tipped to become so.

The 2007 list, published 11 years after Granta's original American selection, lowers the age for qualification as a "young novelist" from 40 to 35. "People seem to be writing (and publishing) fiction sooner," explains the editor of Granta, Ian Jack "... they have, at least in theory, a head start on their predecessors and should be getting better, quicker."

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The full list of novelists recognised on the list is: Daniel Alarcón
Kevin Brockmeier
Judy Budnitz
Christopher Coake
Anthony Doerr
Jonathan Safran Foer
Nell Freudenberger
Olga Grushin
Dara Horn
Gabe Hudson
Uzodinma Iweala
Nicole Krauss
Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Yiyun Li
Maile Meloy
ZZ Packer
Jess Row
Karen Russell
Akhil Sharma
Gary Shteyngart
John Wray

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2027117,00.html

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Looks like an interesting list--I'm embarrassed to say how few of them I have read--yet.

[EFerrari]

1. Cr2p. I don't know any of those names.

:blush:

:kick:

[smoogatz]

2. I must be getting old.

I've only had sex with one of them (but I've seen two of them naked).