Naomi Alderman

Naomi Alderman was born in London in 1974, the daughter of Geoffrey Alderman, a specialist in Anglo-Jewish history. She was educated at South Hampstead High School and Lincoln College, Oxford, where she studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She worked in children's publishing and for a law firm before studying creative writing at the University of East Anglia. She is a professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University. Her debut novel Disobedience (2006) won the Orange Award for New Writers and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Her speculative fiction novel The Power (2016), imagining a world in which women develop the ability to electrocute men, won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2017. She has been named one of Granta's 20 best young writers and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018. She has also worked extensively as a game designer, creating Zombies, Run! and other projects.