WRITER

Graham Swift

1949 - Today

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Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born 4 May 1949) is an English writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Graham Swift has received more than 350,260 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Graham Swift is the 4,398th most popular writer (up from 5,019th in 2019), the 3,142nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,891st in 2019) and the 355th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The light of day
Private investigators, Man-woman relationships, Fiction
George Webb is a divorced ex-policeman turned private investigator, a man whose prospects seemed ruined not so long ago. Kicked off the force for trying in all the wrong ways to put away the right man, he has recently crossed a line with a client--and upended his own life.
2003
Out of this world
Fathers and daughters, Photographers, Fiction
1988
Tomorrow
Family secrets, Psychological fiction, Biologists
2007
Waterland
Fiction, Mentally ill women, History teachers
Waterland is a 1983 novel by Graham Swift. It is considered to be the author's premier novel and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize (a prize Swift finally achieved with Last Orders).
1983
Shuttlecock
Fiction, Men, Fathers and sons
1981
Last orders
Fiction, Death, Friendship
1996

Page views of Graham Swifts by language

Over the past year Graham Swift has had the most page views in the with 45,239 views, followed by French (5,130), and German (3,124). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (1,540.00%), Hungarian (575.78%), and West Frisian (143.59%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Graham Swift ranks 4,398 out of 7,302. Before him are Robert Chambers, Franz von Schober, Mario Rigoni Stern, Roderich Menzel, Charles Brockden Brown, and Richard Steele. After him are Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, Norman Lear, Vladimir Dudintsev, David Baldacci, Yuri Bondarev, and Paul Bekker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Graham Swift ranks 366. Before him are Gil Scott-Heron, Daniel Killer, Manfred Burgsmüller, Masato Harada, Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, and Leopoldo Brenes. After him are Natalia Kuchinskaya, Stephen Gyllenhaal, Ivan Kostov, Ebi, Moussa Koussa, and Mugur Isărescu.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Graham Swift ranks 3,142 out of 8,785. Before him are Lady Arbella Stuart (1575), Robert Chambers (1802), Christopher Eccleston (1964), Martin Birch (1948), John Steel (1941), and Max Newman (1897). After him are Alan Baddeley (1934), Oliver Sykes (1986), Ian Stewart (1945), Radclyffe Hall (1880), Laura Muntz Lyall (1860), and Philip Reeve (1966).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Graham Swift ranks 355. Before him are William Thoms (1803), Brian O'Nolan (1911), M. R. James (1862), Raphael Holinshed (1529), Anne Bradstreet (1612), and Robert Chambers (1802). After him are Radclyffe Hall (1880), Philip Reeve (1966), Sophie Kinsella (1969), Rosemary Sutcliff (1920), Quentin Crisp (1908), and Arthur Ransome (1884).

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