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Naomi Alderman

Naomi Alderman is a graduate of Oxford University and the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing MA and has published award-winning short fiction in a number of anthologies. She has worked as an editor and game designer, and spent several years living in New York. She grew up in the Orthodox Jewish community in Hendon, the neighborhood in London where she now lives.

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Disobedience will be released on May 22, 2007 in Trade Paperback
May 22, 2007
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Guardian.co.uk, April 20, 2013
...are beautiful. Cold. Demanding. I tell them I can't do what they ask. But I know I will. • Naomi Alderman's The Liars' Gospel is published by Viking at £8.99. Original writing Fiction Twitter Internet Blogging Naomi Alderman guardian.co.uk ©...
The Scotsman, April 19, 2013
...eventually chose? As announced earlier in the week, the Granta Best of Young British Novelists for 2013 comprises Naomi Alderman; Tahmima Anam; Ned Beauman; Jenni Fagan; Adam Foulds; Xiaolu Guo; Sarah Hall; Steven Hall; Joanna Kavenna; Ben Markovits;...
Guardian.co.uk, April 19, 2013
...latest list measures up to its predecessors going back to 1983. We're joined in the studio by Naomi Alderman, one of their number, who explains what the listing means to her, and talks about her latest book, The Liar's Gospel. Listen in to Granta...
World News Network, April 18, 2013
...named in Granta magazine's list of the 20 best young British novelists under the age of 40. Naomi Alderman The one-a-decade list, published this week, includes Naomi Alderman, who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2003, and...
Spectator, April 18, 2013
...work is getting better all the time: this story has an entrancing quality of a voice captured, and Naomi Alderman is full of verve and fun. She is always going to write too much, trying things out, enjoying herself, passing on to the next thing, but the...
Book Business, April 17, 2013
...afternoon: In the U.K., Granta has just announced its prestigious, once-a-decade Best of Young British Novelists list: Naomi Alderman Tahmima Anam Ned Beauman Jenni Fagan Adam Foulds Xiaolu Guo Sarah Hall Steven Hall Joanna Kavenna ...
Telegraph, April 17, 2013
...the United States, with a Chinese-American man waking up in a motel next to a dead woman. Only Naomi Alderman offers comedy, with a thought experiment in which the prophet Elijah turns up at the door of a Jewish family at Passover. Behind the charming...
Forbes India, January 14, 2013
...pulse, does Patnaik, so you can be sure of a decent read. How to Spend Times Alone – Naomi Alderman, How to Connect with Nature – Tristan Gooley, How to Build Confidence – [author not given] – The School of Life series – Pan Macmillan We...
Guardian.co.uk, January 4, 2013
...for people to work up to 5km runs. As before, it comes with a zombified storyline from author Naomi Alderman. Pitfall! (Free) Atari reinvented its classic Pitfall game as a freemium Temple Run-style game for iOS last year. Now it's available on Android...
One News Page, January 4, 2013
...for people to work up to 5km runs. As before, it comes with a zombified storyline from author Naomi Alderman. * Pitfall! (Free) * Atari reinvented its classic Pitfall game as a freemium Temple Run-style game for iOS last year. Now it's available on...
Times Education Supplement, January 3, 2013
...The novelist and games writer was enchanted by a woman with a wide- ranging mind who was fond of giving advice Mrs Louise Pavey was my Latin teacher at South Hampstead. I would never have thought that Latin would be a subject I would be particularly...
Technology Daily News, December 28, 2012
...down from $7.99] Zombies, Run! is an ultra-immersive running game and audio adventure, co-created with award-winning novelist Naomi Alderman. Zombies, Run! 5k Training [iPhone, Category: Health & Fitness, On sale for $1.99, down from $3.99] Zombies,...
PublishersWeekly.com, December 21, 2012
...June, is a vocal ambassador for the site. She is co-writing The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home with author Naomi Alderman on the site, as well as judging Wattpad’s poetry contest, charmingly named after her—the Attys. To what end? She supports this...
History Today, December 18, 2012
...some of the more impressive (and controversial) authors who have reflected upon the life of Christ in fiction. Naomi Alderman’s terrific The Liars’ Gospel (Penguin, £12.99) follows in their footsteps by considering the figure of Yehoshuah (Jesus)...