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magazine described it as "an entertaining, engaging read" but found the story it told "uncomfortable and problematic. Your enjoyment of the novel will depend on how you respond to the premise that Jesus was, potentially, an 'inconsequential preacher'". Set in and around Jerusalem between
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interview, "When I was a teenager in the 1990s, it was a common thing among young women to say that feminism's battles are won. Now I think it's very horrifically obvious that that is not the case." She wrote
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25 Writers for the Future. It led her to reject her life as a practising Jew. "I went into the novel religious and by the end I wasn't. I wrote myself out of it," she told
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Alderman became an advocate for feminism in her teenage years and has since supported women's rights, which has influenced her works. She stated in a 2018
350:(Viking), with Jesus portrayed as the Jewish preacher Yehoshuah, was published in paperback in 2012. Reviewing the book, Shoshi Ish-Horowicz in the 1521: 1373: 314:, a well-received, if somewhat controversial, novel about a North London rabbi's bisexual daughter living in New York, which won Alderman the 2006 1196: 432: 1026: 1501: 1201: 319: 221: 1516: 1511: 1506: 1451: 494: 1281: 1170: 1153: 705: 207: 772: 755: 730: 651: 628: 603: 580: 557: 534: 1081: 975: 1526: 1248: 1004: 1306: 949: 474:
was subsequently produced as nine episodes, which premiered on 31 March 2023 and concluded on 12 May 2023.
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once-a-decade list of 20 best young writers. She writes a monthly technology column for
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Ish-Horowicz, Shoshi (October 2012). "Books: The Liars' Gospel".
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In 2012, Alderman was appointed professor of creative writing at
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in 2017. Alderman has confirmed that she has sold the rights of
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Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative: A year of mentoring
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history who has described himself as an unconventional
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as an inspiration and a source of similar dialogue.
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All three novels have been serialised on 1171:"Rolex Mentor and ProtĂ©gĂ© Arts Initiative" 973: 452:is dedicated to and influenced by Atwood. 1448:, 20 February 2006, based on an interview 1338: 1021: 692: 1227: 1194: 843: 637: 612: 589: 566: 543: 518: 433:Rolex Mentor and ProtĂ©gĂ© Arts Initiative 1522:Alumni of the University of East Anglia 1076: 871:"Presume not that I am the thing I was" 792:, bbc.co.uk. Accessed 26 December 2022. 1484: 1478:, with 7 library catalogue records 974:Armitstead, Claire (28 October 2016). 923: 1390: 1105: 214:before becoming a novelist. 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London. 11 February 2007. 642:(hardcover 2023 ed.). 619:(hardcover 2017 ed.). 339:in 2016. Her second novel, 200:South Hampstead High School 198:. Alderman was educated at 70:South Hampstead High School 10: 1553: 594:(hardcover 1st ed.). 525:(hardcover 1st ed.). 363:Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC) 148:(born 1974) is an English 472:The television adaptation 458:Women's Prize for Fiction 448:, was published in 2016. 442:Alderman's fourth novel, 212:University of East Anglia 168:Women's Prize for Fiction 128: 123: 103: 89: 84:University of East Anglia 75: 65: 54: 28: 21: 285:alternative reality game 272: 222:Young Writer of the Year 638:—— (2023). 613:—— (2016). 590:—— (2012). 567:—— (2011). 544:—— (2010). 519:—— (2006). 371:Siege of Jerusalem (70) 343:was published in 2010. 204:Lincoln College, Oxford 80:Lincoln College, Oxford 1527:Jewish English writers 548:(paperback ed.). 297:and The Walk. 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London
England
novelist
South Hampstead High School
Lincoln College, Oxford
University of East Anglia
Literary fiction
Science fiction
Disobedience
The Power
www.naomialderman.com
novelist
game writer
executive producer
The Power
Women's Prize for Fiction
television series
Amazon Studios
Geoffrey Alderman
Anglo-Jewish
Orthodox Jew
South Hampstead High School
Lincoln College, Oxford
Philosophy, Politics and Economics
University of East Anglia
The Sunday Times
Young Writer of the Year
Waterstones
Bath Spa University
Granta

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