Sigrid Rausing is Acting Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and of Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm and Everything is Wonderful, forthcoming from Grove Atlantic in the US and Bonniers in Sweden.
The recent editions of Granta have all done what a good literary magazine should: showcase the newest by the best authors and the best by the newest authors - Scotland on Sunday 'Granta is not for the sluggish of mind or conventional of expectation. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry and photography bump and rub and jostle inside each issue, and sometimes you're not quite sure what you're reading until you've finished it - if then. The mystery is part of the excitement' Chicago Tribune