The Series Continues

Last week Granta published its first ever fully translated issue, the Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists. The English edition is with subscribers now, and has been in UK bookshops since Thursday 25 November, and the US since Monday 6 December. The Spanish edition can be bought here. Read the introduction to the issue by the founding co-editors of Granta en Español, Aurelio Major and Valerie Miles, here. Alternatively, subscribe to the magazine to receive it straight to your door four times a year.

The next three writers to be introduced by previous Best Young Novelists are Elvira Navarro, Alberto Olmos and Pola Oloixarac. Click on the images of the three below to read their answers to a questionnaire on their influences, and the role of the writer in public life.

A.L. Kennedy: ‘Physical details threaten and frustrate, pain is present and yet deadened...’

Yiyun Li: ‘Robbing us when we are the least prepared...’

Kate Wheeler: ‘Couplings and points of view ooze together like molten glass or ice cream melting on hot pavement...’

Visit the issue page to see a full list of the writers, or read the introduction to the issue by Granta en Español’s editors, Valerie Miles and Aurelio Major. You can also read about the launch of the issue in Madrid last month.