A brief statement (typescript, 1 sheet) on winning the Booker Prize, published in Booker 30: A Celebration of 30 Years of the Booker Prize for Fiction 1969-1998.
Article for Arts Council Writers' Awards Publication
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Brief article (two sheets, 2001) discussing the benefit of receiving an Arts Council Bursary in 1982, together with a letter of thanks (6 April, 2001) from the Director of Literature, Arts Council.
A letter (7 November, 1984) from Jan Kjaerstad (Editor, Vinduet) inviting Swift to contribute quarterly a 'Letter from England' to the Norwegian magazine. In typescript, fifteen Letters from England published in Vinduet, discussing various literary matters of the day. The contributions were sub...
'On Reading Aloud' (Cheltenham Festival of Literature)
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Typescript and a photocopy of its publication in The Daily Telegraph [October 1991], together with a brief exchange (card and covering letter) between Swift and the newspaper. Also, a set of notes in Swift's hand (11 small sheets).
Talk Prepared for the Cheltenham Literature Festival
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Two typescript drafts of a talk delivered at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature (October 2008), addressing the question: 'Which writers have influenced you?' An annotation at the head of the second draft notes that the talk was adapted from an essay on Isaac Babel (collected in Making an Ele...
Autograph manuscript and typescript text for a lecture delivered at a conference in Nice (Société des Anglicistes de L'Enseignement Supérieur), 17 May 1997. With a letter of thanks from the Président of the Société, Adolphe Haberer (29 June 1997), referring to subsequent publication in the Bulle...
Statement for University of York 40th Anniversary Brochure
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A letter from University of York (5 March, 2003) requesting a brief statement for 40th anniversary publication, together with Swift's statement (90 words, typescript).