Graham Swift

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.

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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)

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

writer / novelist / teacher

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Ox

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

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%20Swift
• 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
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q437718

Tags

• writer
• novelist
• teacher

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.