Graham Swift

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Graham Colin Swift (born May 4, 1949 in London ) is a British writer .

Life and work

Swift attended Dulwich College in London , Queens' College in Cambridge and the University of York and then worked as a teacher.

He became known through his award-winning novel Wasserland . He writes short stories and novels and, according to various critics, including the columnist Thomas David, is one of the most important storytellers in contemporary British literature. His work has received several awards. The central theme of his books is the function of memory. He developed it on the basis of characters from recent English history by linking personal fates with world history. A special stylistic device is the achronological narrative technique - the postponed, fragmented narration of subsequent stories - and the use of an unreliable narrator .

Several of his works have been filmed with top-class cast: 1. his novel Shuttlecock 1991 by Andrew Piddington with Alan Bates , Lambert Wilson and Kenneth Haigh; 2. his novel Waterland 1992 with Jeremy Irons (see Waterland ); 3. the novel Ever after 2001 by Fred Schepisi with Michael Caine , Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren .

His novel Mothering Sunday , published in 2016 , which was published in 2017 in the German translation by Susanne Höbel under the title Ein Festtag , has been translated into more than 20 languages. The novel immediately became an international bestseller and received the renowned Hawthornden Prize in 2017 .

Graham Swift lives in London.

Awards

Works

  • The sweet shop owner. Novel , 1980
    • A serious life . Novel. Translated from the English by Matthias Müller. Zsolnay, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-552-03827-2
  • Shuttlecock. N ovel, 1981
    • Also known as shuttlecock . Novel. Translated from the English by Maria Gridling. Zsolnay, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-552-03537-0
  • Learning to swim. Short stories , 1982
    • Learn to swim . Stories. Translated from the English by Barbara Rojahn-Deyk. Hanser, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-446-20769-1
  • Waterland. Novel , 1983
    • Water land . Novel. Translated from the English by Franziska Reiter. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987, ISBN 3-499-15846-9
  • Out of This World . Novel, 1988
  • Ever after. Novel , 1992
    • From that day on . Novel. Translated from the English by Barbara Rojahn-Deyk. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987, ISBN 3-499-22248-5
  • Last orders. Novel , 1996
  • The Light of Day. Novel , 2003
    • The bright light of day . Novel. Translated from the English by Barbara Rojahn-Deyk. Hanser, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-446-20358-3
  • Tomorrow. Novel, 2007
    • In the labyrinth of the night . Novel. Translated from the English by Barbara Rojahn-Deyk. dtv , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-24826-6
  • Chemistry , short story, 2008
  • Making an Elephant: Writing from Within , 2009
    • Make an elephant. About life in writing . Translated from the English by Susanne Höbel. dtv, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-423-28184-3
  • Wish you were here. Novel , 2011
    • If you were still here . Novel. Translated from the English by Susanne Höbel. dtv, Munich 2012 ISBN 978-3-423-24922-5
  • England and Other Stories , 2015
    • England and other stories. Stories. Translated from the English by Susanne Höbel. dtv, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-28072-3
  • Mothering Sunday. A Romance , 2016
    • A feast day . Novel. Translated from the English by Susanne Höbel. dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-28110-2
  • Here We Are. A Novel , 2020
    • Since we are . Novel. Translated from the English by Susanne Höbel. dtv, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-423-28220-8

literature

  • Catherine Bernard: Graham Swift: la parole chronique. Presses universitaires, Nancy 1991, ISBN 2-86480-554-5 .
  • Heike Hartung: The decentralized story - historical narration and literary story (s) with Peter Ackroyd, Graham Swift and Salman Rushdie. WVT, Trier 2002, ISBN 3-88476-454-3 .
  • David Malcolm: Understanding Graham Swift. University Press, Columbia SC 2003, ISBN 1-57003-515-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Floating. Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
  2. ^ Höbel in the translator database of the VdÜ , 2019
  3. ↑ Author profile at dtv , accessed May 29, 2017.
  4. ↑ Review note for the story book England and other stories (2016) at Perlentaucher , accessed May 29, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Swift, Graham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Swift, Graham Colin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH London