Meaney appointed editor of Granta magazine

The Granta Trust has appointed Thomas Meaney to be the new editor of Granta Magazine from mid-April.

Meaney is an editor and writer, with a PhD in modern History from Columbia University. He has taught at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin, and held fellowships in Potsdam, Vienna and Göttingen.

His writing has covered topics such as decolonisation, migration and literature. Last year, he received the Robert B Silvers Prize for journalism.

He said: "I am thrilled to be joining the team at Granta and look forward to working with some of the best writers around. Granta’s mission to find new writers has never been more important. It’s a great honour to help guide this storied magazine, which has set the tone for many of the most significant developments in fiction and journalistic writing for the past four decades."

Granta Magazine is owned by the Granta Trust, a registered charity established in 2018. The trust is overseen by external trustees Rana Dasgupta and George Prochnik, as well as by internal trustees, including Granta’s publisher and current editor Sigrid Rausing, and managing director and deputy editor Luke Neima. Elizabeth Wedmore acts as secretary to the board.

Rausing commented: "I am delighted with this appointment. Thomas Meaney’s analytical mind and commissioning imagination will deepen our engagement with the world of non-fiction, in particular. His first issue comes out in late autumn, and we hope the theme will be Germany, a place (and literature) Thomas Meaney knows well."