Adam Foulds
Adam Foulds is a poet and novelist from London. He has published two novels, The Truth About These Strange Times and The Quickening Maze, and The Broken Word, a narrative poem set during the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya at the end of British imperial rule. He is the recipient of a number of literary awards, including the Sunday Times Younger Writer of the Year, the Costa Poetry Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the South Bank Show Prize for Literature, the Encore Award and the European Union Prize for Literature. The Quickening Maze was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010.
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A World Intact
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‘His life, unexciting as it may have been so far, was still a detailed, complicated thing.’
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Podcast: Adam Foulds and John Freeman
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Adam Foulds spoke to John Freeman about how he wanted to be a scientist before discovering writing and his time working in a warehouse as a forklift truck driver.
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Forklift Truck Driver Wins Literary Prize!
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‘There are two options for the young writer and employment. There is the proper job, whatever it might be – law, advertising, medicine or the default choice for many, academia. Or there’s the menial, rent-paying job.’
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Betrayal
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‘The thrill of this film – and it is thrilling – is seeing that understood and played out by actors of incredible skill.’
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Dreams of a Leisure Society
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‘They were citizens of a multidimensional universe and they liked to get high.’