![]() ![]() In 2009, 'Other People's Gods' was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award.Īlderman is also a successful video games writer and creator. All three novels have been adapted for the BBC Radio Four series Book at Bedtime.Īlderman's short stories have been published in Prospect magazine and various anthologies, as well as being adapted for BBC Radio Four. ![]() It was followed by The Liars' Gospel (2012), a mature and ambitious work that offers different perspectives on the life of Jesus through four different narrators. ![]() It was awarded the Orange Award for New Writers in 2006, and the following year Alderman won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.Īlderman's second novel, The Lessons (2010), which explores the lives of a group of Oxford students, has been compared to Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. She later returned to the UK and attained an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.Īlderman's first novel, Disobedience (2006), inspired by her own upbringing, features a 30-something female protagonist whose father's death is the catalyst for her return to the Orthodox Jewish community in which she grew up. Naomi Alderman was born in London in 1974 and grew up in an Orthodox Jewish community.Īfter attaining a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Lincoln College, Oxford, Alderman spent several years working in New York. ![]()
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