Granta Diary 2005

by Granta: The Magazine of New Writing (Compiler)

This is a diary for those who like books, write books and make books, containing 52 striking book jacket designs in full colour-favourites chosen by Granta's editors from 100 years of publishing history, and important dates for life and literature in the year ahead.

Paperback

First published August 3, 2004

About the author

Granta magazine was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, a periodical of student politics, student badinage and student literary enterprise, named after the river that runs through the town. In this original incarnation it had a long and distinguished history, publishing the early work of many writers who later became well known, including A. A. Milne, Michael Frayn, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. During the 1970s, it ran into trouble – dwindling money, mounting apathy – from which it was rescued by a small group of postgraduates who successfully and surprisingly relaunched it as a magazine of new writing, with both writers and their audience drawn from the world beyond Cambridge.