Booker Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 28 (1996) Winner
Graham Swift
グラハム・スウィフト
Gurahamu Suwifuto
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1949-05-04 （London）
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- London
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist
- Active Years
- 1980-
- Affiliations
- Royal Society of Literature
- Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- Influenced By
- Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Günter Grass, Ted Hughes
- Nominations
- Waterland (Booker Prize shortlist 1983), The Light of Day (Man Booker longlist 2003)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dulwich College | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
| Queens' College, Cambridge | Faculty of English | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
| University of York | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
Dulwich College
Country:
United Kingdom
Secondary school
Queens' College, Cambridge
Faculty of English
Country:
United Kingdom
University of York
Country:
United Kingdom
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize | Shuttlecock | — | — | winner |
| 1983 | Guardian Fiction Prize | Waterland | — | The Guardian | winner |
| 1996 | Booker Prize | Last Orders | — | — | winner |
| 1996 | James Tait Black Memorial Prize | Last Orders | fiction | — | joint-winner |
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
1983
Work:
Shuttlecock
Result:
winner
Guardian Fiction Prize
1983
Work:
Waterland
Organization:
The Guardian
Result:
winner
Booker Prize
1996
Work:
Last Orders
Result:
winner
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1996
Work:
Last Orders
Category:
fiction
Result:
joint-winner
Awards & Nominations
James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
1 appearances
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Edition 78 (1996) Winner
Hawthornden Prize
1 appearances
-
Edition 77 (2017) Winner
Works
Major Works
Waterland
1983 Historical novelA novel of landscape, history and family set in The Fens. Often cited as one of the outstanding post-war British novels.
historyfamilylandscapemagic realism
Adaptations
- [Film] Waterland / Stephen Gyllenhaal (1992)
Shuttlecock
1981 Novel
traumasecrets
Adaptations
- [Film] Shuttlecock (1993)
Last Orders
1996 NovelFriends take the ashes of their dead friend to the sea. Controversial due to similarities to Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.
friendshiplossdeath
Adaptations
- [Film] Last Orders (1996)
- [Film] Mothering Sunday (2021)
Bibliography
- The Sweet-Shop Owner (1980)
- Shuttlecock (1981)
- Waterland (1983)
- Out of this World (1988)
- Ever After (1992)
- Last Orders (1996)
- The Light of Day (2003)
- Tomorrow (2007)
- Wish You Were Here (2011)
- Mothering Sunday (2016)
- Here We Are (2020)
- Learning to Swim and Other Stories (1982)
- England and Other Stories (2014)
- Making an Elephant: Writing from Within (2009)
Adaptations
- Waterland (film 1992)
- Shuttlecock (film 1993)
- Last Orders (film 1996)
- Mothering Sunday (film 2021)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- magic realism influencesfusion of landscape and historypsychological depth
- Recurring Motifs
- historyfamilylosslandscape
Legacy
One of the outstanding post-war British novelists. Waterland is a set text in schools and Last Orders won the Booker amid controversy.
Archives
- British Library
In Popular Culture
- Acquainted with Ted Hughes
Quotes
-
The phrase everybody comes up with is magic realism, which I think has now become a little tired... influenced by Borges, Márquez, Grass.
Source: BOMB Magazine interview (1986)
Trivia
- Last Orders Booker win controversial due to similarities to Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
- Angling partner of Ted Hughes, papers at British Library
- Multiple short stories in The New Yorker