ENCORE: Adam Foulds Strikes Again

 

Congratulations to Adam Foulds whose Man Booker shortlisted novel The Quickening Maze won the Encore Award for best second novel of 2009 and 2010 last night. He was presented with the prize by former Encore winner Ali Smith at an award ceremony in Dartmouth House. Judges Alex Clark, Lindsay Duguid and Peter Parker, described The Quickening Maze as "a confident, beautifully written historical novel, seamed with poetry and intense descriptions of the natural world, which unobtrusively deploys its documentary underpinnings". Previous winners of the award include Claire Messud, Anne Enright, Iain Sinclair, Colm Toibin and Nadeem Aslam. The award fills a niche in the catalogue of literary prizes by celebrating the achievement of outstanding second novels, often neglected in comparison to the attention given to promising first books.

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