And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets. Teenage girls now have immense physical power: they can cause agonizing pain and even death. In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature an ambitious American politician a tough London girl from a tricky family.īut then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. In 20, 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.In this stunning bestseller that inspired the Amazon Prime series, praised as "our era's Handmaid's Tale," a fierce new power has emerged-and only women have it ( Washington Post). Naomi has been a Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. 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 guest-presented Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and writes frequently for the Guardian. 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. In 2011 she wrote the Doctor Who tie-in novel Borrowed Time. She's written online games for Penguin, the BBC, and other clients. From 2004 to 2007 Naomi was lead writer on the alternate reality game Perplex City. In 2009 she was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Her prize-winning short fiction has appeared in Prospect, on BBC Radio 4 and in a number of anthologies. All of her novels have been chosen for BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime slot. 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. Penguin published her second novel, The Lessons, in 2010 and her third novel, The Liars' Gospel, in August 2012. Her first novel, Disobedience, was published in ten languages and made into a film Disobedience (2017). In 2007, she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and one of Waterstones' 25 Writers for the Future. In 2006 she won the Orange Award for New Writers. She later returned to the UK and attained an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. After attaining a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Lincoln College at Oxford University, she spent several years working in New York.
Naomi Alderman was born in London in 1974 and grew up in an Orthodox Jewish community in London.
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