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Granta Video: Nadifa Mohamed

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In the second of three specially commissioned short films celebrating Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 4, we introduce you to Nadifa Mohamed, who was born in Somalia and raised in South London. Mohamed’s first novel Black Mamba Boy (which was shortlisted for numerous prizes and won the Betty Trask Award) was inspired by the life of her father who was forced to leave Somalia and set out on an odyssey that brought him to the UK. Here we join her as she explores Shepherd’s Bush Market, where there is a large Somali community, hear about her next novel (excerpted in the issue) and learn why she wants to be the griot, or storyteller, of the London she grew up in.
You can also watch the first in this series of short films, on Adam Foulds.
Commissioned in collaboration with the British Council.
Directed and produced by The Film Atelier.

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A list of Britain's 20 brightest young writers has been unveiled by literary magazine Granta.
The once-a-decade list often proves controversial, but has a strong track record of elevating relatively unknown novelists into the literary spotlight.
Two authors named in 2013 - Zadie Smith and Adam Thirlwell - appeared on the previous Granta Best of Young British Novelists list in 2003.
The list was announced at the British Council in London on Monday night.
The 2013 Granta list is notable for its multicultural mix, and for being the first to feature a majority of female writers. It features six debut novelists.
The names are: Naomi Alderman, Tahmima Anam, Ned Beauman, Jenni Fagan, Adam Foulds, Xiaolu Guo, Sarah Hall, Steven Hall, Joanna Kavenna, Benjamin Markovits, Nadifa Mohamed, Helen Oyeyemi, Ross Raisin, Sunjeev Sahota, Taiye Selasi, Kamila Shamsie, Zadie Smith, David Szalay, Adam Thirlwell and Evie Wyld.

GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2013

  • Naomi Alderman
  • Tahmima Anam
  • Ned Beauman
  • Jenni Fagan
  • Adam Foulds
  • Xiaolu Guo
  • Sarah Hall
  • Steven Hall
  • Joanna Kavenna
  • Benjamin Markovits
  • Nadifa Mohamed
  • Helen Oyeyemi
  • Ross Raisin
  • Sunjeev Sahota
  • Taiye Selasi
  • Kamila Shamsie
  • Zadie Smith
  • David Szalay
  • Adam Thirlwell
  • Evie Wyld
"From satirists to humorists to sweeping epic-spinners, these writers have a command of language and their form which is simply astonishing. They show that the novel has a bold, brilliant future in Britain," said Granta editor John Freeman.
Beauman, 27, the youngest on the list, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize last year with his second novel The Teleportation Accident.
Several others on the list also have a Man Booker track record. Adam Foulds' The Quickening Maze was shortlisted in 2009, while Sarah Hall's The Electric Michelangelo was shortlisted in 2004 and How to Paint a Dead Man was longlisted in 2009.
Zadie Smith's On Beauty was shortlisted in 2005, and went on to win the Orange Prize for Fiction the following year.
Jonathan Ruppin, web editor for Foyles, said the Granta list gave a "fascinating snapshot" of the state of British literary fiction.
"It's the first time that female writers have formed a majority, which perhaps reflects the fact that women's greater interest in reading fiction has inevitably led to more of them writing it," he said.
"A comparison with the first list in 1983 also reflects how multicultural Britain has become in the intervening decades, with writers from a far wider range of ethnic backgrounds making their mark.
"The British publishing industry is often criticised for being parochial, middle-class, white or London-centric and while this may have been true in the past, I think this list shows how much our horizons have broadened."
Author Nadifa Mohamed tells BBC News why the Granta list is so important.
Some authors on the list illustrate how publishing and technology has changed since the 2003 list. As well as her novels, Naomi Alderman has co-created Zombies, Run! - a fitness game and audio app for smartphones. She was also the lead writer on Bafta-shortlisted alternate reality game Perplex City.

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Publishing has changed so much in the last couple of decades that you do need a bit of a push with your first book.”
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The first-time novelists on the 2013 list include Steven Hall, author of The Raw Shark Texts, and also lead writer on recently-released first person shooter video game Crysis 3.
Other debut novelists are Jenni Fagan (The Panopticon) Nadifa Mohamed (Black Mamba Boy), Sunjeev Sahota (Ours are the Streets), Taiye Selasi (Ghana Must Go - published last month), and Evie Wyld (After the Fire, A Still Small Voice).
Wyld not only writes books but sells them too, running a small independent bookshop called Review, in Peckham, south-east London.
She told the BBC: "Publishing has changed so much in the last couple of decades that you do need a bit of a push with your first book. I certainly wouldn't have got where I am today without other lists and prizes.
On the difficulties faced by writers in 2013, she said: "It's a case of don't give up your day job... I certainly don't do it for the money. Anyone who gets into thinking it's a way to make easy cash is deluded."
Zadie Smith and Adam Thirlwell Zadie Smith and Adam Thirlwell were also on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list in 2003
Granta's first list of 20 writers aged under 40 was published in 1983.
Many of the class of '83 have become household names, such as Martin Amis, William Boyd, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Pat Barker, Ian McEwan and Rose Tremain.
The 1993 list included Iain Banks, Louis de Bernieres, Alan Hollinghurst, Hanif Kureishi, Ben Okri, Will Self and Jeanette Winterson.
As well as Zadie Smith and Adam Thirlwell, the Granta list in 2003 included Brick Lane author Monica Ali, Rachel Cusk, AL Kennedy, David Mitchell, and Sarah Waters.
Unlike most literary prizes, inclusion on the Granta list is not pegged to a particular book and focuses on existing and emerging talents.
The judges for 2013 were Granta editor John Freeman, deputy editor Ellah Allfrey, author Romesh Gunesekera, Stuart Kelly, literary editor of Scotland on Sunday, author and comedian AL Kennedy, Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing and Gaby Wood, head of books at the Telegraph.
Kennedy appeared on the Granta Best of Young British Novelist list in 1993 and again in 2003.
BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime will air readings of five short stories from the Granta authors this week.

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Since she was 17, LaToya Ruby Frazier has been taking black-and-white photographs of her family and hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania. Her camera techniques are decidedly old school, and the formal beauty of her images evokes Diane Arbus: gray skies blend into empty streets; a still life of personal effects on a bedside table could date from the 1970s; a boxy sedan on a lawn looks like a 20th-century relic.

Yet it is Frazier's second turn as a performance artist that brings the post-industrial decay of Braddock, a former steel town, into a relentless present. In 2010, Levi's featured the town prominently in an ad campaign, calling it "the new frontier." In response, Frazier performed in front of a pop-up Levi's photo gallery in SoHo with artist Liz Magic Laser, rubbing her body on the concrete sidewalk to wear out a pair of jeans as a critique of Levi's commodification of working-class America. "When I asked my elders about denim, they expressed how it was frowned upon to wear denim outside of work," Frazier remembers. "In fact, my great-step-grandfather, Gramps, never wore denim. He was one of the few African-American men who worked in Andrew Carnegie's steel mill. Gramps only wore suits. I will never forget watching him suffer from chronic arthritis and multiple other ailments that he developed while working in the steel mills . . . It came natural for me to tear a pair of Levi's jeans as a political gesture and testament for the men and women whose views counter such a fictitious, superficial, propagandized ad campaign."

The 30-year-old Frazier continues her critique of the Levi's Braddock ads by mixing their imagery and messages along with her own—and incorporating questions from community residents—for the 12-piece photo series she will show at the Biennial, entitled Campaign for Braddock Hospital (Save Our Community Hospital) (2011). "My main focuses are lack of healthcare and corporate exploitation," Frazier says of these works.

In repurposing advertising's images and phrases for political critique, Frazier's work continues in the subversive tradition of artists like Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, and Martha Rosler. And although Braddock is overwhelmingly the subject and setting, Frazier's work could also be seen as self-portraiture. Also on view will be her Homebody Series (2010), black-and-white photographs in which Frazier haunts her abandoned family home wearing "Gramps' pajamas" and "Grandma Ruby's velour bottoms."


ABOVE: LATOYA RUBIE FRAZIER IN NEW YORK, JANUARY 2012. ALL CLOTHING FRAZIER'S OWN. SPECIAL THANKS TO FAST ASHLEYS.

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