Adam Foulds
BIOGRAPHY
I am a poet and novelist originally from the UK, now a Canadian resident. I’ve published four novels and a poetry collection and bunch of other things. I’ve won a number of literary awards, including being shortlisted for the Booker Prize. I’ve taught creative writing at workshops and universities in Britain, Canada, and elsewhere.
I am a poet and novelist originally from the UK, now a Canadian resident. I’ve published four novels and a poetry collection and bunch of other things. I’ve won a number of literary awards, including being shortlisted for the Booker Prize. I’ve taught creative writing at workshops and universities in Britain, Canada, and elsewhere.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
DREAM SEQUENCE, novel, February 2019, Jonathan Cape, UK/ June 2019, FSG, US.
IN THE WOLF’S MOUTH, novel, February 2014, Jonathan Cape/ June 2014, FSG, US.
THE QUICKENING MAZE, novel, Cape, 2009.
THE BROKEN WORD, narrative poem, Cape Poetry, 2008.
THE TRUTH ABOUT THESE STRANGE TIMES, novel, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2007.
Other Publications:
(All publications are in print with possible online formats also).
Article on Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet, Foxed Quarterly, Forthcoming.
Article on Daniil Trifonov Concert in Montreal, Times Literary Supplement, May 20, 2022
‘Ghosts’ Short Story, Granta 159, Spring 2022.
Article/ Review on Solitude and Loneliness, Times Literary Supplement, May 29 2020
Article on Nabokov’s The Gift, Slightly Foxed Quarterly, Summer 2019.
Article on music and the writing process, Literary Review Canada, May 2019.
Article on Brexit, Globe and Mail newspaper, Canada, May 2019.
Essay, ‘Swifts.’ Granta 142, Animalia, Winter 2018.
Review/ article on Denis Johnson’s fiction, Financial Times, Jan 19, 2018.
Review, Basil Bunting’s Collected Poems, Areté Magazine, issue 51.
Review, The Burning Ground, Adam O’Riordan, Guardian Newspaper, Jan 25th 2017.
Article, Geoffrey Hill’s Collected Poems, Slightly Foxed Magazine, 2017, tbc.
Catalogue Introduction for Paula Rego, The Last King of Portugal And Other Stories, exhibition, Marlborough Fine Art, 2014.
Essay for On Life Writing, Zachary Leader ed, OUP 2014. Version of a lecture given at the Huntington Library 2012 Life Writing Conference.
The Broken Word, radio play adaptation, BBC Radio 4, autumn 2013.
‘A World Intact’, extract from In The Wolf’s Mouth, Granta 123: Best Of Young British Novelists, April 2013.
‘Dreams Of A Leisure Society,’ short story, Granta 119, ‘Britain’ issue, 2012.
‘A Kindness,’ short story, The New Statesman magazine, 2012.
Introduction to The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, Vintage Classics, Spring 2011.
Essay on ‘St. Jerome’ by Farrukh Beg, miniature painting in the Museum Of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar, as part of the ‘Reflections’ project edited by Ahdaf Soueif, Bloomsbury Qatar foundation, 2011.
‘The Rules Are The Rules,’ short story in PEN/ O Henry Prize Stories 2011, Anchor, Spring 2011.
‘The Rules Are The Rules,’ short story Granta ‘Sex’ Issue, 2010.
Translations of various books and publications into a number of languages, including French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Arabic and Hebrew.
AWARDSLonglisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize for Fiction.
Shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
Named as one of the New Generation Poets, 2014.
Winner of the E M Forster Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, May 2013.
Named one of Granta’s Best Of Young British Novelists, April 2013.
Winner, European Union Prize For Literature, 2011.
Winner 2010 Encore Award for The Quickening Maze.
Winner of South Bank Show Literature Award 2009 for The Quickening Maze.
Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize 2009 for The Quickening Maze.
Shortlisted for 2008 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for The Quickening Maze.
Longlisted for the 2009 Dublin Impac Award for The Quickening Maze.
The Quickening Maze chosen among Books Of The Year, Guardian newspaper and as one of the fifteen best novels of 2010 by The New Yorker magazine.
Winner 2008 Costa Poetry Prize for The Broken Word.
Winner 2008 Somerset Maugham Award for The Broken Word.
Shortlisted for 2008 Sunday Times Young Writer Of The Year Award for The Broken Word.
Shortlisted for 2008 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for The Broken Word.
Winner 2007 Sunday Times Young Writer Of The Year Award for The Truth About These Strange Times.
Winner 2007 Betty Trask Award for The Truth About These Strange Times.
