Recreation

Granta Best of Young British Novelists

Every decade Granta produces a list of Britain's best young novelists. The list was the brainchild of Desmond Clarke, who ran the Book Marketing Council in the early 1980s. Bill Buford, then editor of Granta, who devoted an issue to the list, decided to repeat the process himself in 1993. In 2003, the judges were Ian Jack, editor of Granta; Robert McCrum, The Observer's literary editor; Hilary Mantel, novelist and critic; Nicholas Clee, editor of the Bookseller; and Alex Clark, fiction reviewer for the Guardian and London Review of Books. For more information on the list, read Granta's grotto by Geraldine Bedell, The Observer, January 5, 2003.

2003