Graham Swift

Graham Swift
Born	4 May 1949 (1949-05-04) London, England
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	English
Notable work(s)	Last Orders
Notable award(s)	Booker Prize 1996

Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born May 4, 1949) is a British author. He was born in London, England and educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York. He was a friend of Ted Hughes

Some of his works have been made into films, including Last Orders, which starred Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins and Waterland which starred Jeremy Irons. Last Orders was a joint winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a mildly controversial winner of the Booker Prize in 1996, owing to the superficial similarities in plot to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Waterland was set in The Fens; it is a novel of landscape, history and family, and is often cited as one of the outstanding post-war British novels and has been a set text on the English Literature syllabus in British schools.

Novels

• The Sweet-Shop Owner (1980)
• Shuttlecock (1981) -- winner of the 1983 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
• Waterland (1983)
• Out of This World (1988)
• Ever After (1992)
• Last Orders (1996) -- winner of the 1996 Booker Prize
• The Light of Day (2003)
• Tomorrow (2007)
• Making an Elephant: Writing from Within (2009)
• Wish You Were Here (2011)

Short stories

• Learning to Swim (1982)
• Chemistry (2008)

External links

• 2007 audio interview with Graham Swift on the topic of 'The Light of Day', conducted by John Mullan