For more about the author, including critical perspectives and in-depth biographies, visit the British Council’s web pages on Naomi Alderman.
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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
‘I alone know a running stream
that is recovery partly and dim sweat
of a day-fever’
A poem by Rowan Evans.
‘Humour is a thread we hang onto. It punctures through the fog of guilt.’
Momtaza Mehri in conversation with Warsan Shire.
‘Something shifted in me that night. A small voice in my head said, maybe you can make a way for yourself as a poet here, too.’
Mary Jean Chan in conversation with Andrew McMillan.
‘There was to be an exhibition. There were lots of pictures like his, apparently – of waiters, pastry cooks, valets, bellboys.’
An essay by Jason Allen-Paisant from Granta 159: What Do You See?
‘I have started to see that nothing is itself’
A poem by Jason Allen-Paisant from Granta 154: I’ve Been Away for a While.
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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Naomi Alderman shares five songs she loves to write to.
‘It is not often, even in Hendon, that one witnesses a miracle.’
‘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.’
‘It was an isolated incident, and there had been no official or unofficial communication about it.’
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