Granta is published in London but has a worldwide readership. It’s a magazine but in the shape of a book. And now Granta is available in Greek, published by Giannikos: www.granta.gr.

Granta publishes previously unpublished works by both famous and unknown writers. It publishes, quarterly, a distinctive mix of fiction, personal history, reportage, inquiring journalism and documentary photography.

In the pages of Granta, readers were introduced for the first time to the work of writers such as Bill Bryson, Romesh Gunesekera, Blake Morrison, Arundhati Roy and Zadie Smith.

Granta was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, a periodical of student politics and literary enterprise.

Ian Jack has edited Granta since 1995. He began his career in journalism on a weekly newspaper in Scotland in the 1960s. In 1989 he co-founded the Independent on Sunday in 1989, and went on to edit the newspaper between 1991 and 1995. His awards in Britain include those for reporter, journalist and editor of the year.

He will be in Athens to tell us more about Granta, while the writer Theodoros Grigoriadis will tell us what Granta means for a Greek writer.

Ian Jack has also provided an article from Granta for our latest literature competition, which this year offers translators the opportunity to demonstrate their talent: