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
‘She must have loved gold seeing that everything in the penthouse was gold. We didn’t sit. Fear didn’t let us see where to sit.’ A story by Adachioma Ezeano.
‘I had also, a week earlier, been fired for trying to sleep with my boss’s husband. I got the idea from a book, or maybe every book.’ A story by Emily Adrian.
‘The Mitsubishi conglomerate controls a forty per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna; they are freezing and hoarding huge stocks of the fish every year.’ Katherine Rundell on extinction speculation.
‘Two roof tiles are missing to the rear: the kiss of death. Without repair, ruination is now inevitable. Until then, this is my best hope of shelter.’ Cal Flyn visits the island of Swona in northern Scotland.
‘I’m on the cliff of myself & these aren’t wings, they’re futures. / For as long as I can remember my body was a small town nightmare.’ A poem by Ocean Vuong.
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.’
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