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Hari Kunzru among the 20 best novelists in Britain: Granta
London, Jan 06: Indian-origin author Hari Kunzru is among Britain`s 20 best young novelists, chosen by an influential British literary magazine.
London, Jan 06: Indian-origin author Hari Kunzru is among Britain's 20 best young novelists, chosen by an influential British literary magazine.
London, Jan 06: Indian-origin author Hari Kunzru is among Britain's 20 best young novelists, chosen by an influential British literary magazine.
Granta's list is a marketing exercise on behalf of contemporary literature, and was the brainchild of Desmond Clarke, who ran the Book Marketing Council in the early 1980s, before literary novelists acquired their present status as minor celebrities.
This is the third list published in the last three decades.
The first list, published in 1983, included India-born Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes and William Boyd.
Thirty-three-year old Kunzru was chosen for his debut novel The Impressionist, hailed as an instant classic.
Others chosen included Monica Ali for her debut novel Brick lane, Philip Hensher, author of last year's The Mulberry Empire; Toby Litt, whose most recent work is Deadkidsongs; Alan Warner, author of the screen-adapted Morvern Callar, and the Booker-nominated Andrew O'Hagan, whose fictionalised account of the life of Lena Zavaroni comes out later this year.
Bureau Report
London, Jan 06: Indian-origin author Hari Kunzru is among Britain's 20 best young novelists, chosen by an influential British literary magazine.
Granta's list is a marketing exercise on behalf of contemporary literature, and was the brainchild of Desmond Clarke, who ran the Book Marketing Council in the early 1980s, before literary novelists acquired their present status as minor celebrities.
This is the third list published in the last three decades.
The first list, published in 1983, included India-born Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes and William Boyd.
Thirty-three-year old Kunzru was chosen for his debut novel The Impressionist, hailed as an instant classic.
Others chosen included Monica Ali for her debut novel Brick lane, Philip Hensher, author of last year's The Mulberry Empire; Toby Litt, whose most recent work is Deadkidsongs; Alan Warner, author of the screen-adapted Morvern Callar, and the Booker-nominated Andrew O'Hagan, whose fictionalised account of the life of Lena Zavaroni comes out later this year.
Bureau Report