Adam Foulds is a British novelist and poet. He is the author of The Quickening Maze, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the European Union Prize for Literature, and The Broken Word, which won the Costa Poetry Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. He received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.