Graham Swift

Graham Swift

Graham Swift was born in London in 1949. He is the author of nine novels and two short stories, including The Land of Water (1983), a novel that won The Guardian Fiction Award and made by Stephen Gillenhaal with Jeremy Irons in the film. main role; Since that day (1992), winner of the award for Best Foreign Book in France; Last drinks, winner of the Booker Prize in 1996; The light of the day (2003) and Tomorrow (2007). He is also the author of an essay on writing: Making an Elephant: Writing from within (2009). His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Wish You Were Here, published in English in 2011, is his most recent novel.