Naomi Alderman
In 2006, Naomi Alderman received the Orange Award for New Writers, an early recognition that marked the beginning of a public career in fiction that would span novels, games, and television.
Born in London on 23 October 1974, Alderman attended South Hampstead High School before going on to study at Lincoln College and later the University of East Anglia. She has worked across a wide range of forms and industries, taking on roles as a novelist, science fiction writer, electronic literature writer, video game developer, television producer, and literary editor. Her writing has appeared in both English and Hebrew.
Among the works associated with her name are Disobedience, Zombies, Run!, and The Winter House. The breadth of those projects — a novel rooted in an Orthodox Jewish community, a fitness app built around a zombie narrative, and a further work of fiction — reflects the variety of formats she has worked in throughout her career. Alongside her creative output, she has also worked as an editor, contributing to literary culture beyond her own writing.
Alderman has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has received the prix République du Glamour, adding to the recognition she first attracted with the Orange Award for New Writers. Her fellowship with the Royal Society of Literature stands as a formal acknowledgment of her place among working writers in the United Kingdom.
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Quotes by Naomi Alderman
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I used to think there was something cheap in trying to make beautiful sentences. Now I think language has its own ways and ends, and it does one's thinking good to try to serve them. Beauty isn't truth. But a certain kind of clear beauty will help in the pursuit of truth.

I find it particularly irritating, if I go to a games conference to speak about my work, that often it's presumed that I'm the marketing girl - that's annoying.

I really hope that men read 'The Power' and watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' and read 'The Handmaid's Tale.'

In general, I'd rather ask questions and look stupid than keep quiet and not understand what someone's talking about.

I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience.

I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.

The truth is, none of us is OK, not really. The best, most dear, most thoughtful and engaged and open and feminist men in my life have occasionally come out with some statement that's made me gasp. Then again, so have almost all the women.

I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought.

