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Alan Lightman

Since that time, Lightman's essays, short fiction, and reviews have also appeared in The American Scholar, The Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, Dædalus, Discover, Exploratorium, Granta, Harper's Magazine, Harvard Magazine, Inc Technology, Nature, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, "Salon",

Ben Rice

His debut novella Pobby and Dingan (later filmed as Opal Dream) was awarded the Somerset Maugham Award in 2001 (as well as being shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), and in 2003 Granta named him as one of their twenty "Best of Young British Novelists".

Daniel Alarcón

Daniel Alarcón’s work has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere, and anthologized in Best American Non-Required Reading 2004 and 2005.

Eduard Roschmann

Goñi, Uki, ODESSA—Smuggling the Nazis to Perón's Argentina, Granta, New York 2002 ISBN 1-86207-552-2

Hugh Raffles

His writing has appeared in academic and popular venues, including Granta, Public Culture, Natural History, Orion, American Ethnologist, the New York Times, and The Best American Essays.

Hydronym

An unusual example is the River Cam - it was originally called the Granta, but when the town of Grantebrycge became Cambridge, the river's name changed to match the toponym.

Krunoslav Draganović

Uki Goñi: The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Perón's Argentina (Granta Books, 2002, ISBN 1-86207-581-6)

Marie-Louise von Motesiczky

Diana Athill wrote about her friendship with Motesiczky in her autobiography 'Somewhere Towards the End' (Granta, 2008).

Nicholas Humphrey

He studied mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey in Rwanda, he was the first to demonstrate the existence of "blindsight" after brain damage in monkeys, he proposed the celebrated theory of the “social function of intellect” and he is the only scientist ever to edit the literary journal Granta.

Oxford University Lightweight Rowing Club

Since 2007, however, Cambridge has declined to field a Granta crew, and Nephthys has raced in the Tideway Head and other external races.

Scott C. Johnson

His writing has also appeared in Foreign Policy, New York Times, BuzzFeed, Guernica Magazine, Granta and various other outlets.

Straw dog

Professor John N. Gray's book of trenchant essays is titled Straw Dogs (John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, Granta Books 2002, ISBN 1-86207-512-3)

Travis Elborough

Travis Elborough is the author of The Bus We Loved: London's Affair With the Routemaster (Granta Books, 2005), The Long-Player Goodbye: The Album From vinyl To iPod And Back Again (Sceptre 2008) and Wish You Were Here - England on Sea (Sceptre 2010).


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