How to get published: ‘Read the classics, read the canon and edit, edit, edit’

Sigrid Rausing, the editor of ‘Granta’, whose latest issue is a New Irish Writing special, has some advice for aspiring writers  

Sat, Jun 4, 2016, The Irish Times -                                 

 Denis Staunton

Literary heir: the Granta editor Sigrid Rausing inherited some of the fortune created by the Tetra Pak business
 

Behind a row of white converted shopfronts in Holland Park, in west London, Granta’s offices are hushed and comfortable, an elegant mix of glass panels, fashionable furniture and bright young people carrying piles of books. When Sigrid Rausing arrives, casually dressed and softly spoken, it is hard to imagine that she’s not only Granta’s owner, publisher and editor but also one of the wealthiest women in Britain.

 

The 53 year-old Swedish heiress, whose fortune comes from her grandfather’s invention of the Tetra Pak carton, bought the literary magazine in 2005. Three years ago, after the sudden departure of a number of senior staff, including Granta editor John Freeman, Rausing decided to edit the magazine herself.

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