The long history of Granta magazine
Granta Magazine, the quarterly, self proclaimed magazine of new writing, has a long and rich history. Granta was founded as The Granta in 1889 by students at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. The Granta began as a periodical of student politics and literature.
Granta Magazine was named after the river that runs through Cambridge. The early magazine published many writers who later became quite famous such as Sylvia Plath, Michael Frayn, Bertran Fletcher Robinson, Ted Hughes and A.A. Milne.
Granta Magazine was born again in 1979. In the 1970′s the magazine ran out of funds and changed into a magazine for new, up and coming writers from all around the world. The magazine deals with many vital subjects, including politics, and aims to stimulate and inspire the reader by tackling difficult issues. It has a circulation of nearly 50,000. A wonderful and surreal fiction piece,http://www.granta.com/Magazine/114/Last-Man-in-Tower/1 is available in the current Granta to read in full
Grata Magazine is committed to being a voice for the power of story, both fiction and non-fiction.
After a varied and bumpy history, Grata Magazine continues to publish fine writing and is only growing in popularity and readership. Many have called Grata the world’s finest literary magazine.