Granta Best of Young British Novelists 4: Adam Foulds from Granta magazine on Vimeo.

In the first of three specially commissioned short films, we take you inside the writing study of one of Granta’s
Best of Young British Novelists 4
, Adam Foulds. The winner of the Costa Book Award for The Broken Word and shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel The Quickening Maze, here Foulds tells us how he would take long investigative walks of Epping Forest as a young boy who wanted to be a scientist, why he started to write and what attracts him in his work to moments of ‘existential reckoning’.

Commissioned in collaboration with the British Council.

Directed and produced by
The Film Atelier
.

For more about the author, including critical perspectives and in-depth biographies, visit the British Council’s web pages on
Adam Foulds
.

Upcoming events featuring Adam Foulds:

Kwani Trust
and
British Council
will collaborate with Granta to host a week of literary events in Nairobi between 19th-23rd June 2013.

The joint week of literary programming will include a launch of the latest Granta issue,
Best of Young British Novelists 4
, a three-day writing workshop, readings by visiting writers
Nadifa Mohamed
and Adam Foulds at Daystar University and a symposium based on related work by
Kwani Trust
. Nadifa Mohammed and Adam Foulds will read their pieces from the latest Granta issue joined by Kenyan writers published by Kwani Trust on 23rd June 2013 at a Sunday Salon event at The Elephant (formerly Kifaru Gardens). The two writers will also tutor at a writing workshop led by Granta’s Deputy Editor Ellah Allfrey and joined by Kwani Trust’s Managing Editor, Billy Kahora from 19th-21st June 2013. 15 selected emerging Kenyan writers will join visiting writers from Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Nigeria for the workshop and other literary events.

For further information, please contact: Velma Kiome, General Manager, Kwani Trust on v.kiome@kwani.org