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Adam Foulds

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Adam Foulds

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1974-10-08 （London, United Kingdom）
国籍
British
言語
English
居住地歴
London, United Kingdom → Toronto, Ontario, Canada

経歴

職業
poet, novelist
活動期間
2007年〜
所属
Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)
所属団体
Royal Society of Literature

学歴

Bancroft's School
国: United Kingdom
Secondary education institution
St Catherine's College, Oxford
English
学位: BA
国: United Kingdom
Read English under Craig Raine
University of East Anglia
Creative Writing
学位: MA
卒業年: 2001
国: United Kingdom
MA in Creative Writing (2001)

受賞歴

Betty Trask Award
2007
対象作品: The Truth About These Strange Times
主催: Society of Authors
結果: Won
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
主催: The Sunday Times
結果: Won
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
2008
対象作品: The Broken Word
主催: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
結果: Shortlisted
Costa Book Awards (Poetry)
2008
対象作品: The Broken Word
部門: Poetry
主催: Costa Book Awards
結果: Won
Somerset Maugham Award
2009
主催: Society of Authors
結果: Won
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award (Shortlisted)
2009
主催: The Sunday Times
結果: Shortlisted
Man Booker Prize (Shortlisted)
2009
対象作品: The Quickening Maze
主催: Man Booker Prize
結果: Shortlisted
Encore Award
2011
対象作品: The Quickening Maze
主催: Society of Authors
結果: Won
Walter Scott Prize
2010
対象作品: The Quickening Maze
主催: Walter Scott Prize
結果: Shortlisted
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
2010
主催: Royal Society of Literature
結果: Honored
European Union Prize for Literature
2011
対象作品: The Quickening Maze
主催: European Union Prize for Literature
結果: Won
Granta Best of Young British Novelists
2013
主催: Granta
結果: Won
Walter Scott Prize (Shortlisted)
2015
対象作品: In the Wolf's Mouth
主催: Walter Scott Prize
結果: Shortlisted
Giller Prize (Longlisted)
2019
対象作品: Dream Sequence
主催: Giller Prize
結果: Longlisted

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

The Truth About These Strange Times

2007年 Novel

A first novel set in the present day that partly revolves around the World Memory Championships and explores a cast of characters.

memorycompetitionidentity

The Broken Word

2008年 Narrative poem / verse novella

A fictionalised account of events during the Mau Mau Uprising; a substantial narrative poem depicting violence and memory.

historyviolencememory

The Quickening Maze

2009年 Novel (historical fiction)

Set in a Victorian lunatic asylum, it follows figures such as the poet John Clare to explore the boundaries between sanity and madness.

madnesshistoryart and the mind

In the Wolf's Mouth

2014年 Novel (historical fiction)

A long novel that uses historical material to examine human frailty, violence and a sense of mission.

violencemoralityhistory

Dream Sequence

2019年 Short fiction / collection

A collection of short fiction exploring dreams, memory and the intersections with reality.

dreamsmemoryreality

全著作

  • The Truth About These Strange Times (2007)
  • The Broken Word (2008)
  • The Quickening Maze (2009)
  • In the Wolf's Mouth (2014)
  • Dream Sequence (2019)

作風・主題

文体
epic, poetic prosedetailed psychological depictionweighty narration incorporating historical material
頻出モチーフ
memorythe boundary between madness and sanityhistory and violence

評価・遺産

A writer acclaimed both as a poet and novelist. Known for bringing poetic techniques into fiction and for handling historical subjects; recipient and nominee of multiple major literary awards.

関連学会

  • Royal Society of Literature

引用

  • 'The Quickening Maze' is the real thing — a novelistic novel, rich in its understanding and representation of the mad, the sane, and that large overlapping category in between.
    出典: Julian Barnes (review in The Guardian) (2009年)

豆知識

  • Surname pronounced /foʊldz/.
  • Married to Canadian photographer Charla Jones and lives in Toronto.
  • Active in both poetry and fiction.