Granta 123: The Best of Young British Novelists 4: The Best of Young British Novelists 4 — John Freeman

Kazuo Ishiguro, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, Alan Hollinghurst, David Mitchell, Salmon Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Rose Tremain, Will Self, Jeannette WintersonÂ...long before they were household names, they were Granta Best of Young British Novelists. With each new list  -- in 1983, 1993, and 2003  -- came new ways of witnessing the world, introductions to unforgettable characters and mysterious and addictive voices. In 2013, thirty years after the first collection, the magazine asks once again: Which writers are setting the bar for a new decade of British novels?

Look into Granta's crystal ball and see the future of fiction rising up from the Big Smoke and beyond.