Naomi Alderman

Naomi Alderman was born in London in 1974 and grew up in an Orthodox Jewish community in London. After attaining a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Lincoln College at Oxford University, she spent several years working in New York. She later returned to the UK and attained an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. In 2006 she won the Orange Award for New Writers. In 2007, she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and one of Waterstones' 25 Writers for the Future.

Her first novel, Disobedience, was published in ten languages and made into a film Desobediência (2017). Penguin published her second novel, The Lessons, in 2010 and her third novel, The Liars' Gospel, in August 2012. In October 2016, she published her fourth novel, The Power; a science fiction novel about a world in which women develop the power to conduct electricity. It won the Baileys Prize in 2017. All of her novels have been chosen for BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime slot.

Her prize-winning short fiction has appeared in Prospect, on BBC Radio 4 and in a number of anthologies. In 2009 she was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award.

From 2004 to 2007 Naomi was lead writer on the alternate reality game Perplex City. She's written online games for Penguin, the BBC, and other clients. In 2011 she wrote the Doctor Who tie-in novel Borrowed Time. In 2012, she co-created the top-selling smartphone fitness game and audio adventure Zombies, Run! 2 (2013), which is a market leader and has been downloaded millions of times.

Naomi has guest-presented Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and writes frequently for the Guardian. She has been one of the presenters of Science Stories, a program about the history of science on BBC Radio 4, as well as presenting many one-off documentaries.

Naomi has been a Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. In 2012 and 2013, she was mentored by Margaret Atwood as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative and in April 2013 she was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in their once-a-decade list.