Naomi Alderman

Naomi Alderman is a novelist, broadcaster, and video game designer. Her novels include Disobedience (2006), The Liars’ Gospel (2012), and the bestselling The Power (2016), which won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and was named by Barack Obama as one of his ten books of the year. Her work has been published in more than thirty languages. She was mentored by Margaret Atwood as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, was one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2013, and is professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University. She presents Science Stories on BBC Radio 4 and is the co-creator and lead writer of the smartphone audio adventure Zombies, Run! She is currently working on the TV adaptation of The Power.