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Adam Foulds

Adam Foulds is a poet and novelist. He was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2013 and the Poetry Society’s Next Generation Poets in 2014. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009. His most recent novel, Dream Sequence, was published in 2019. Photograph © Charla Jones

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Fiction | Issue 159 padlock
Fiction | Issue 159 padlock

Ghosts

Adam Foulds

‘It was unmistakable, he said; it was absolutely him.’

Fiction by Adam Foulds.

Art & Photography | Issue 150 padlock
Art & Photography | Issue 150 padlock

Why We Walk

Ian Willms & Adam Foulds

‘There are glimmers of the reality beyond, the promise of redemption even in the darkest places.’

Adam Foulds introduces the photography of Ian Willms.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 142 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 142 padlock

Swifts

Adam Foulds

‘Swifts come closer than any other creature to living in the sky and having air and ceaseless movement as their home.’

In Conversation | Issue 142
In Conversation | Issue 142

Adam Foulds | Interview

Adam Foulds

A short film featuring Adam Foulds, one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.

Fiction | Issue 123
Fiction | Issue 123

A World Intact

Adam Foulds

‘His life, unexciting as it may have been so far, was still a detailed, complicated thing.’

In Conversation | Issue 123
In Conversation | Issue 123

Adam Foulds | Podcast

Adam Foulds

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.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 123
Essays & Memoir | Issue 123

Forklift Truck Driver Wins Literary Prize!

Adam Foulds

‘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.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 123
Essays & Memoir | Issue 123

Betrayal

Adam Foulds

‘The thrill of this film – and it is thrilling – is seeing that understood and played out by actors of incredible skill.’

Fiction | Issue 119 padlock
Fiction | Issue 119 padlock

Dreams of a Leisure Society

Adam Foulds

‘They were citizens of a multidimensional universe and they liked to get high.’

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