Graham Swift

Graham Swift is an English novelist, poet and short story writer whose books include Waterland, Last Orders and Mothering Sunday. His first novel, The Sweet-Shop Owner, appeared in 1980, and Last Orders went on to win the 1996 Booker Prize. Mothering Sunday, published in 2016, later won the 2017 Hawthornden Prize. Swift has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1984.