Naomi Alderman is the author of
the novel “Disobedience”,
for which she has just won the 2006 Orange Prize for New Writers. She was born
in London in 1974, and grew up in the Orthodox Jewish community in Hendon, and
lives there again after a couple of years in Manhattan. She read philosophy,
politics and economics for her BA at Lincoln College, Oxford University (she
has said that it would have been better if she had read English). However, she
then attended the UEA’s famous Creative Writing MA, where she won the David
Higham Award. She came joint third in the 2003 Asham Award with “Gravity”, and
also came third in the 2003 Writers Bureau short story competition with “And The World
Smiles With you”. She spent a month as a resident at the University of
Arizona’s poetry center, which she credits as giving her the necessary
breathing space to really bring “Disobedience” alive. Naomi Alderman has
previously worked as an editor and a games designer. “Disobedience” was longlisted
for the 2006 Orange Prize, but did not make the shortlist. However, the novel
has made it to the shortlist for the Orange Award for New Writers 2006.
On the life of a new author –
visit Naomi Alderman’s blog
You
are now entering Perplex City – Naomi Alderman is the lead writer on Perplex City
The Final Analysis
– a Naomi Alderman short story published in “Electric Acorn 13”. Plum Live Fiction has a link to
an audio recording of Naomi Alderman reading this story (see the “Readings”
section)
Naomi
Alderman interview – by Cara Wides
Woman’s Hour
– their audio interview with Naomi Alderman
The ‘manor’ as
muse – Naomi Alderman writes about Hendon, the setting for “Disobedience”
Imaginary
Para-sites of the Soul: Vampires and Representations of ‘Blackness’ and
‘Jewishness’ in the Buffy/Angelverse – an essay by Naomi Alderman
and Annette Seidal-Arpaci
Naomi Alderman
wins the 2006 Orange Award for New Writers – a report on Naomi Alderman’s
encouraging win
Is Borat offensive? – Naomi Alderman contributes to the debate
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