Ilya Gridneff
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Canada correspondent for the @FT
Toronto, Canada
Joined November 2011
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Today we are ecstatic to announce a literary event almost twenty years in the making: YOUR NAME HERE, the collaborative novel by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff, will be published in 2025. Full press release below: https://t.co/uint14hDaO
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Of all the reviews of Your Name Here, I think this one in the @Telegraph is the one that best captures the spirit of the book. So glad Britain is getting introduced to the brilliance of YNH -that is the brilliance of @helendewitt & @IlyaGridneff
https://t.co/w8yzfh9qia
telegraph.co.uk
Helen DeWitt’s description-defying new novel, Your Name Here, co-written with journalist Ilya Gridneff, has been decades in the making
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She Tried to Leave America. She Entered an Immigration Hall of Mirrors. https://t.co/JrH1m8NqUR via @NYTimes
nytimes.com
After more than 20 years in the U.S., an Eritrean mother and nurse tried to self-deport to Canada. She found herself in a Texas detention center instead.
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Over the past year, I have been cultivating sources in refugee & immigration circles to find out how Canada is responding to Trump's crackdown on asylum seekers. Over the summer, one story that came to me stood out. It's out today. #thread
https://t.co/dxPTzl7puB
nytimes.com
After more than 20 years in the U.S., an Eritrean mother and nurse tried to self-deport to Canada. She found herself in a Texas detention center instead.
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Your Name Here in “Best books of 2025: from our own stable” via @FT @Dalkey_Archive @helendewitt
ft.com
From political history to football fever, books by FT journalists and editors
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Mark Carney’s Oil Conundrum Great @FT read by @IlyaGridneff
ft.com
Canada’s prime minister is making a risky bet that fossil fuels can revive the economy
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YOUR NAME HERE, live in Brooklyn. @IlyaGridneff at the @nplusonemag headquarters on November 20 https://t.co/rCVJO133cw
nplusonemag.com
A celebration of Your Name Here in Brooklyn
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Online now, and in the physical Washington Post this weekend, another rollicking interview/profile of @helendewitt and @IlyaGridneff. Link below.
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Crucial documentation about the unfolding horrors in #Sudan: A deadly sweep following RSF takeover of #AlFashir by @nafisaeltahir Men shot by the hundreds, disappeared after Sudanese city falls to paramilitaries, witnesses say
reuters.com
Reuters has verified at least three videos posted on social media showing men in RSF uniforms shooting unarmed captives.
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Two decades in the making, @IlyaGridneff and @helendewitt’s intertextual novel “Your Name Here” will be released by @Dalkey_Archive later this month. Sean Hooks talks to the authors about its genesis through Tom Cruise, Italo Calvino, and gameyness. https://t.co/xRUSp3uHg3
thebaffler.com
I have no opinion about the Zeitgeist.
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https://t.co/RKdNbnvQKM Episode 300 of BTZ with @IlyaGridneff speaking about his novel co-written with @helendewitt YOUR NAME HERE. Get the book from @Dalkey_Archive and listen from an alternate reality near you or anywhere you get your podcasts.
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Beyond The Zero · Episode
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A phenomenal New York Times profile on @helendewitt, and the long road to publishing Your Name Here with @IlyaGridneff. https://t.co/6YgUMjKRs7
nytimes.com
Helen DeWitt’s bewildering co-written novel, “Your Name Here,” took almost 20 years to publish, a process that nearly drove her to despair.
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“The book is on a table in the bookstore” Please join us in celebrating @helendewitt, @IlyaGridneff, and the publication of a novel roughly two decades in the making. YOUR NAME HERE is now available everywhere.
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Fastballs and free trade: Canada’s Blue Jays in the World Series https://t.co/38G4uMBMHi via @financialtimes
ft.com
The Toronto baseball team’s showdown with an American juggernaut is about more than just sport
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Fastballs and free trade: Canada’s Blue Jays in the World Series https://t.co/38G4uMBMHi via @financialtimes
ft.com
The Toronto baseball team’s showdown with an American juggernaut is about more than just sport
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Definite highlight, however: the most eagerly anticipated 'Your Name Here', by @helendewitt and @IlyaGridneff, from @Dalkey_Archive
dalkeyarchive.store
By Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff. A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the...
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Before he met the polymathic writer @helendewitt, @IlyaGridneff was a roving paparazzo chasing celebrities across the globe. Their encounter developed into a long creative partnership and now—at long last—a novel. https://t.co/xRUSp3uHg3
thebaffler.com
I have no opinion about the Zeitgeist.
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Trump says he is ending trade negotiations with Canada https://t.co/XLttVqa5K6 via @financialtimes
ft.com
US president voices anger at anti-tariff advertisement by province of Ontario
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