When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.
Graham Swift Quotes
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.
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| Birth: | 4th May, 1949 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Novelist |
About
Graham Colin Swift was born in London, England. He is an English novelist. He earned a B.A. degree in 1970 and an M.A. degree in 1975 from Queen's College, Cambridge University. Some of Swift's books have been filmed, including Last Orders and Waterland. He has written several novels include: The Sweet-Shop Owner, Shuttlecock(winner of the 1983 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), Waterland, Last Orders(winner of the 1996 Booker Prize and winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction), The Light of Day, Tomorrow, and Wish You Were Here.
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