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Graham Swift

グレアム・スウィフト　/　ぐれあむ・すうぃふと

Writer from United Kingdom

May 4, 1949 (age 77)　・　London, United Kingdom

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novelist
teacher

My Take

Graham Swift writes the kind of fiction that rewards patience, and I treasure that. Waterland alone earns him a permanent place on my shelf, but the Booker-winning Last Orders proved his gift for letting memory, landscape and the silences inside families do the heavy lifting. He is not a flashy or prolific author; he is a careful one, trusted by serious readers for decades and decorated from the Geoffrey Faber to the Hawthornden. What impresses me most is the quiet endurance, still building stories well past the age when many writers coast. He embodies the unhurried craft I wish modern publishing valued more.

Overview

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.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Graham Swift
Name (Japanese): グレアム・スウィフト
Reading: ぐれあむ・すうぃふと
Born: May 4, 1949 (age 77)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Taurus / Ox
Origin: London, United Kingdom
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: writer / novelist / teacher

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: University of York

Awards & achievements

1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1983 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
1996 Booker Prize
1983 Guardian Fiction Prize
2017 Hawthornden Prize
1984 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role
Notable work	Shuttlecock	—
Notable work	Waterland	—
Notable work	Last Orders	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%95%E3%83%88

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