Graham Swift

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Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born 4 May 1949) is an English novelist, poet and short story writer. His first novel – The Sweet-Shop Owner – was published in 1980. His second novel – Shuttlecock – was published the following year, and won the 1983 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He followed this with Learning to Swim and Other Stories, in 1982. Swift's third novel – Waterland – won the 1983 Guardian Fiction Prize, the 1983 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, the 1987 Grinzane Cavour Prize and was shortlisted for the 1983 Booker Prize. He followed this with his fourth novel – Out of This World – which was published in 1988. His fifth novel – Ever After – was published in 1992, and won the 1994 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. Swift's sixth novel – Last Orders – won the 1996 Booker Prize and was a joint winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the fiction category. His seventh novel – The Light of Day – was published in 2003, while his eighth novel – Tomorrow – was published in 2007....

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