Ten years after the success of the 1983 Best of Young British Novelists issue, four judges -- A.S. Byatt, Salman Rushdie, bookseller John Mitchinson, and Granta editor Bill Buford -- set out to identify twenty more young and promising writers. The l...
Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Julian Barnes were relatively unknown names in literature when Granta published its first Best of Young British Novelists list in 1983. They did not remain unknown for long. These writers -...