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Graham Swift (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Graham Swift is best known for his novels, The Sweet Shop Owner (1980), Shuttlecock (1981), Waterland (1983), Out of This World (1988), Ever After (1992), and Last Orders (1996).

Achievements

Graham Swift’s best-known novel, Waterland, was a finalist for England’s Booker McConnell Prize and was named best English novel of 1983 by the newspaper The Guardian. His novel Last Orders won the Booker McConnell Prize in 1996 as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

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