Last Orders was a joint winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a mildly controversial winner of the Booker Prize in 1996, owing to the superficial similarities in plot to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Some of his works have been made into films, including Last Orders, which starred Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins and Waterland which starred Jeremy Irons. He was born in London, England and educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York. Graham Colin Swift is a well-known British author and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).
Awards-Booker Prize James Tait Black Memorial Prize.Education-Dulwich College Cambridge University of York.In their brilliantly realized, richly nuanced voices, Swift has created a narrative language that perfectly expresses not only the comforts of old habits and friendships, but also the complexity and courage of ordinary lives. Through conversation and memory they trace the paths they have followed by choice and by accident through the Second World War and its aftermath, through the dramas of family life, and their relationships with each other. The men, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack and their favourite pub, must make their way down to a seaside town to complete the task. Last Orders is the story of four men once close to London butcher Jack Dodds, who meet to carry out his last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. Winner, 1996 Booker Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize
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