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Naomi Alderman

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Naomi Alderman is a British author and novelist. Alderman was educated at South Hampstead High School and Lincoln College, Oxford, where she read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. She then went on to study creative writing at the University of East Anglia before becoming a novelist.

She was the lead writer for Perplex City, an Alternate reality game, at Mind Candy from 2004 through June 2007. Her father is Geoffrey Alderman, an academic who has specialised in Anglo-Jewish history. She and her father were interviewed in The Sunday Times' "Relative Values" feature on 11 February 2007.

Her literary debut came in 2006 with Disobedience, a well-received novel about a rabbi's daughter from North London who becomes a lesbian, which won her the 2006 Orange Award for New Writers. Since its publication in the United Kingdom, it has been issued in the USA, Germany, Israel, Holland, Poland, and France. It is due to be published in Italy, Hungary, and Croatia.

She wrote the narrative for The Winter House, an online, interactive, yet linear short story visualized by Jey Biddulph. The project was commissioned by Booktrust as part of the Story campaign, supported by Arts Council England. 

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Disobedience

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