Award-winning author GRAHAM SWIFT was born in 1949 in London where he still lives and works. He is the author of six previously published novels including "Last Orders", which was awarded the Booker Prize and was made into a critically-acclaimed film released February, 2002, starring Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, David Hemmings, Tom Courtenay, and Helen Mirren. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.