{"id":99,"date":"2003-01-08T00:20:25","date_gmt":"2003-01-08T00:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=99"},"modified":"2003-01-08T00:20:25","modified_gmt":"2003-01-08T00:20:25","slug":"granta-publishes-their-new-best-young-british-novelists-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/99","title":{"rendered":"Granta publishes their new &#8220;Best Young British Novelists&#8221; list."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.co.uk\/review\/story\/0,6903,868620,00.html\">full list<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.co.uk\/review\/story\/0,6903,868621,00.html\">commentary article<\/a> can be found over at <i>The Observer,<\/i> but to save you the time, here&#8217;s Granta&#8217;s top 20.  Keep in mind that their previous lists have included some really great talents, so these may be the folks to watch out for.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The authors, and their ages: Monica Ali, 35; Nicola Barker, 36; Rachel Cusk, 35; Susan Elderkin, 34; Peter Ho Davies, 36; Philip Hensher, 37; ALKennedy, 37; Hari Kunzru, 33 (iffy, in my opinion); Toby Litt:, 34; David Mitchell, 33; Andrew O&#8217;Hagan, 34; David Peace, 35; Dan Rhodes, 30; Ben Rice, 30; Rachel Seiffert, 31; Zadie Smith, 27 (of course); Adam Thirlwell, 25 (bastard); Alan Warner, 38; Sarah Waters, 36; and Robert McLiam Wilson, 38.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full list and a commentary article can be found over at The Observer, but to save you the time, here&#8217;s Granta&#8217;s top 20. Keep in mind that their previous lists have included some really great talents, so these may be the folks to watch out for. The authors, and their ages: Monica Ali, 35; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-tip-of-the-quill"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-1B","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}