Graham Swift

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Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of eight acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories; his most recent work is Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize (1983), and with Last Orders the Booker Prize (1996). Both novels have since been made into films. Graham Swift's work has appeared in over thirty languages.

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Last Orders: Screen Adaptation

Posted By Joseph Marren on Thursday 1st Mar 2012

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Last Orders: What the Critics said

Posted By Emma Bravo on Thursday 1st Mar 2012

Here are just a few of the rave reviews that Last Orders garnered when it was published in 1996.

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Filming Again, With Fred: Canterbury Cathedral, 2000

Posted By Sophie Jonathan on Thursday 1st Mar 2012

In 2000 the director Fred Schepisi brought together a remarkable cast of stars to make a film of Last Orders, premiered at the London Film Festival in 2001. Graham Swift looks back on the process.

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