Granta 168: Significant Other
THE MAGAZINE OF NEW WRITING
The Team at Granta have selected Simon Casson’s painting Pelina’s Tourney 2003 as the cover for this years Summer issue.
In Granta 168: Significant Other we consider the people who shape our sense of ourselves and reflect on the connections and encounters that inform a life.
Featuring essays and memoir by Mary Gaitskill, Susan Pedersen, James Pogue and Snigdha Poonam, as well as criticism from Christian Lorentzen.
Fiction by Kevin Brazil, J.M. Coetzee, Sophie Collins, Victor Heringer (translated by James Young), Fleur Jaeggy (translated by Gini Alhadeff) and Alexandra Tanner.
Poetry by Najwan Darwish (translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid), Zoë Hitzig, Tamara Nassar and Bernadette Van-Huy.
And photography by Rosalind Fox Solomon (introduced by Lynne Tillman), Jesse Glazzard (introduced by Anthony Vahni Capildeo) and Debmalya Ray Choudhuri (introduced by John-Baptiste Oduor.
The Pelia’s Tourney oil painting, 180 x 140 cm, was made in 2003 which formed part of the Epitome Series and was exhibited in a solo exhibition at Long and Ryle Gallery in 2003. The painting is now in a private collection. An Exhibition catalogue publication was produced with an essay titled “Gloss on the Old Masters” by Andrew Lambirth after visiting Simon Casson at his Studio in Somerset. Further details can be found on this site under ‘Publications‘
