For more about the author, including critical perspectives and in-depth biographies, visit the British Council’s web pages on Naomi Alderman.
Photograph © BBC Radio 4
Ellah Allfrey speaks with Naomi Alderman, one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.
For more about the author, including critical perspectives and in-depth biographies, visit the British Council’s web pages on Naomi Alderman.
Photograph © BBC Radio 4
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‘Like any desert, I learn myself by what’s desired of me—
and I am demoned by those desires.’
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Naomi Alderman is the author of three novels: Disobedience, The Lessons and The Liars' Gospel. She writers and designs computer games and it co-creator of Zombies, Run!, the best-selling iPhone fitness game and audio adventure. A professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University, she has been paired with Margaret Atwood in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. She is currently working on her fourth novel.
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‘When we find results that seem to make no sense, we should not be surprised or alarmed.’
‘Thank you, God,’ said the boys, ‘for not making me a woman.’ ‘Thank you, God,’ said the girls, ‘for making me according to Your will.’
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