Granta 69: The Assassin (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

by IanJack (Editor)

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  In 1966, the South African premier, Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death in the South African parliament. Who was the killer and what was his motives? A political enemy of the system? A madman?

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  The year 2000 is Australia's year, including the Sydney Olympics in September, and the 100th anniversary of its nationhood three months later. This issue of Granta celebrates Australian writing and examines a country which is forging a strong new identity. The contributors include Peter Carey, Thomas Keneally, Les Murray, Tim Winton, Frank Moorhouse, Howard Jacobson, Robyn Davidson, Murray Bail, Paul Toohey, Georgia Blain and Peter Conrad. There are picture essays by Polly Borland and David Moore, and an Australian novella by English writer Ben Rice.

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  Granta magazine publishes the best of fiction, memoir, reportage and photography, Every issue of Granta is in print and many issues - such as 'Travel', 'Dirty Realism', 'The Family', 'India' and 'Unbelievable' - are classics. Granta only publishes work that has never been published anywhere before. So anyone reading us would have discovered (among others) Bill Bryson, Hanif Kureishi, Louis de Bernieres, Arundhati Roy and Zadie Smith - long before anyone else. Every issue of Granta is special. That's why it's published four times a year - to keep it that way.