Graham Swift
Last Orders
Picador
A controversy sprang up over the similarity of structure between the winner, Graham Swift’s Last Orders and William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. Swift gave an interview the following morning with BBC Radio 4 but was unable to name his favourite authors, ‘because I have a massive hangover,’ he explained.
Shortlisted authors
Margaret Atwood
Beryl Bainbridge
Seamus Deane |
Shena Mackay
Rohinton Mistry
Judges |