Quote by: Graham Swift

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.


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Author Bio


  • NameGraham Swift
  • DescriptionEnglish writer
  • AliasesGraham Colin Swift
  • BornMay 4, 1949
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksShuttlecock; Waterland; Last Orders
  • AwardsJames Tait Black Memorial Prize; Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize