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The winner of the The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2008 award, which is administered by the Society of Authors, was announced at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival on Sunday 6th April.
Adam Foulds was chosen as the winner of the £5,000 prize, open to writers under 35 of fiction, non-fiction or poetry.
He is a graduate of the MA Creative Writing programme at the University of East Anglia and his poetry has appeared in a number of literary magazines. He also won a Betty Trask Award in 2007 for The Truth About These Strange Times.
The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year shortlist:
The Truth About These Strange Times by Adam Foulds (Weidenfeld)
Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Viking Penguin)
The Book Of Love by James McConnachie (Atlantic)
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane (Granta)
To download the 2009 prize application form click here
Awards and Prize Winners 2008
Betty Trask Prize and Awards
Betty Trask Prizes and Awards (past winners)
Cholmondeley Awards for Poets
Cholmondeley Awards for Poets (past winners)
Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography
Elizabeth Longford Prize (past winners)
Encore Award
Encore Award (past winners)
Eric Gregory Awards
Eric Gregory Trust Fund Awards (winners)
McKitterick Prize
McKitterick Prize (past winners)
Prizes for fiction and non-fiction
Sagittarius Prize (past winners)
Somerset Maugham Awards
Somerset Maugham Awards (past winners)
The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (past winners)
Tom Gallon Trust Award and The Olive Cook Prize
Tom-Gallon Award for a short story (past winners)
Travelling Scholarships