Best of Young British Novelists

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A PAPERBACK MAGAZINE OF NEW WRITING BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS Volume One (1983) Who were the best young British novelists ten years ago? And who among them have emerged as the important writers of today? This classic issue of Granta was inspired by the original campaign for the Best Young British Novelists. One of the most popular issues of the magazine (reprinted six times), it collects new fiction from the twenty writers, judged in 1983, to be the best of their generation: Martin Amis Pat Barker Julian Barnes Ursula Bentley William Boyd Buchi Emecheta Maggie Gee Kazuo Ishiguro Alad Judd Adam Mars-Jones Ian McEwan Shiva Naipaul Philip Norman Christopher Priest Salman Rushdie Lisa St Aubin de Teran Clive Sinclair Graham Swift Rose Tremain A.N. Wilson

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