Naomi Alderman
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Naomi Alderman is a British author and novelist.
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[edit] Biography
Born in 1974 in London, she was educated at South Hampstead High School and Lincoln College, Oxford where she read philosophy, politics and economics. She then went on to study creative writing at the University of East Anglia before becoming a novelist.
She was the lead writer for Perplex City at Mind Candy from 2004 through June, 2007.[1]
Her father is Geoffrey Alderman, a well-known professor of Anglo-Jewish history.
She and her father were interviewed in the Sunday 11 February Sunday Times Relative Values feature.
[edit] Works
Her literary debut came in 2006 with Disobedience, a well-received (if controversial) novel about a rabbi's daughter from North London who becomes a lesbian, which won her the 2006 Orange Award for New Writers.
Since its release in the United Kingdom, it has been published in the USA, Germany, Israel, Holland, Poland and France and is due to be published in Italy, Hungary and Croatia.
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[edit] External links
- Personal blog
- Homepage on her agent's website
- Profile in the Scotsman
- Orange Award for New Writers 2006
- Personnel page at Mind Candy
- Relative Values interview
- Waterstones' 25 authors for the future
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