Graham Swift

Archive Swift's archive – including drafts of novels – is available at the British Library, having been acquired in return for £100,000 in 2009. Jamie Andrews – the British Library's head of modern literary manuscripts – said Swift would "unquestionably be seen as one of the pre-eminent writers of the English post-war period". 1983 Guardian Fiction Prize winner, Waterland 1984: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 1987: Grinzane Cavour Prize winner, Waterland 1996: James Tait Black Memorial Prize joint winner, Last Orders 1996: Booker Prize winner, Last Orders

Personal life Swift has been described as "a profile-writer's nightmare because he is quiet and stable... engrossed in his writing". Stephen Gyllenhaal directed and Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Cusack acted. Swift was not impressed, describing the experience as "the movie business at its crassest".

Last Orders was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996.

Mothering Sunday was adapted into a film of the same name in 2021, acted by Olivia Colman and Colin Firth and featuring Glenda Jackson. Work began on it five years previously, before the novel had even been published.