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Graham Colin Swift (born May 4, 1949) is a well-known British author. He was born in London, England and educated at Dulwich College, London, and later Queens' College, Cambridge. is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Some of his works have been made into films, including Last Orders, which starred Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins and Waterland which starred Jeremy Irons. Last Orders was a joint winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a mildly controversial winner of the Booker Prize in 1996, owing to the superficial similarities in plot to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Waterland was set in The Fens; it is a novel of landscape, history and family, and is often cited as one of the outstanding post-war British novels and has been a set text on the English Literature syllabus in British schools. Last Orders is a 2001 motion picture written and directed by Australian (Writer/Director/Producer) Fred Schepisi, and stars Michael Caine as Jack Dodd, Bob Hoskins as Ray, Ray Winstone as Vince Dodds, David Hemmings as Lenny and Tom Courtenay as Vic Tucker. ...
This article is about the English actor. ...
Robert William Bob Hoskins Jr. ...
Waterland is a novel by Graham Swift, made into a 1992 movie starring Jeremy Irons. ...
Jeremy John Irons (born September 19, 1948) is an Academy Award, Tony Award, Screen Actors Guild, two-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning English film, television and stage actor. ...
Founded in 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English Language. ...
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in...
William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 â July 6, 1962) was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. ...
As I Lay Dying is a novel written by the American author William Faulkner. ...
The Fens may also refer to the Back Bay Fens, a park in Boston, Massachusetts. ...
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Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ...
Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ...
Waterland is a novel by Graham Swift, made into a 1992 movie starring Jeremy Irons. ...
Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ...
Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ...
Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...
Last Orders is a 2001 motion picture written and directed by Australian (Writer/Director/Producer) Fred Schepisi, and stars Michael Caine as Jack Dodd, Bob Hoskins as Ray, Ray Winstone as Vince Dodds, David Hemmings as Lenny and Tom Courtenay as Vic Tucker. ...
Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...
Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in...
Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Tomorrow is a novel by Graham Swift first published in 2007 about the impending disclosure of a family secret. ...
Short stories Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ...
External links - 1985 audio interview with Graham Swift at Wired for Books.org by Don Swaim
- 2007 audio interview with Graham Swift on the topic of 'The Light of Day', conducted by John Mullan
- The Real Waterland (British Fens)
| Man Booker Prize Winners for Fiction | | 1960-1969 | P. H. Newby (1969) Don Swaim is an American journalist, writer, and broadcaster. ...
John Mullan is a Professor of English at University College London. ...
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. ...
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. ...
Percy Howard Newby (June 25, 1918 - September 6, 1997) was an English novelist and broadcasting administrator. ...
| | 1970-1979 | Bernice Rubens (1970) • V. S. Naipaul (1971) • John Berger (1972) • James Gordon Farrell (1973) • Nadine Gordimer / Stanley Middleton (1974) • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1975) • David Storey (1976) • Paul Scott (1977) • Iris Murdoch (1978) • Penelope Fitzgerald (1979) Bernice Rubens (July 26, 1928 - October 13, 2004) was a Welsh novelist and screenwriter. ...
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, T.C. (born August 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago), better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a Trinidadian-born British writer of Indo-Trinidadian ethnicity and Bhumihar Brahmin heritage from Gorakhpur in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. ...
John Peter Berger (born November 5, 1926) is an art critic, novelist, painter, and author. ...
James Gordon Farrell (23 January 1935â 11 August or 12 August 1979) more usually known as J.G. Farrell was an Irish and British writer of historical novels. ...
Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923) is a South African novelist and writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature and 1974 Booker Prize. ...
Stanley Middleton (born August 1, 1919) is a British novelist. ...
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David Malcolm Storey (born 13 July 1933) is an English playwright, screenwriter and award winning novelist. ...
Paul Mark Scott (25 March 1920 â 1 March 1978) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his monumental tetralogy the Raj Quartet. ...
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| | 1980-1989 | William Golding (1980) • Salman Rushdie (1981) • Thomas Keneally (1982) • John Maxwell Coetzee (1983) • Anita Brookner (1984) • Keri Hulme (1985) • Kingsley Amis (1986) • Penelope Lively (1987) • Peter Carey (1988) • Kazuo Ishiguro (1989) Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 â 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. ...
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ا٠رشدÛ; born 19 June 1947) is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. ...
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Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 â October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. ...
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| | 1990-1999 | A. S. Byatt (1990) • Ben Okri (1991) • Michael Ondaatje / Barry Unsworth (1992) • Roddy Doyle (1993) • James Kelman (1994) • Pat Barker (1995) • Graham Swift (1996) • Arundhati Roy (1997) • Ian McEwan (1998) • John Maxwell Coetzee (1999) For A. Byatt, the director of French documentary films, see Andy Byatt. ...
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Barry Unsworth (born 1930) is a British novelist who is known for novels with historical themes. ...
Roddy Doyle (Irish: , born May 8, 1958 in Dublin) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. ...
James Kelman (born in Glasgow on June 9, 1946) is an influential writer of novels, short stories and plays. ...
Pat Barker (born May 8, 1943) is an English writer and historian. ...
Suzanna Arundhati Roy[1] (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, writer and activist. ...
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John Maxwell Coetzee (IPA pronunciation: ; born 9 February 1940), often called J.M. Coetzee, is a South African author (now living in Australia) and academic. ...
| | 2000-2010 | Margaret Atwood (2000) • Peter Carey (2001) • Yann Martel (2002) • DBC Pierre (2003) • Alan Hollinghurst (2004) • John Banville (2005) • Kiran Desai (2006) • Anne Enright (2007) Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian writer. ...
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