“Expect to be disgusted by your own early work. If writing is your vocation, if you hope that it might be your salvation, push on through the disgust until you find one true sentence, a few words that say more than you expected, something you didn't know until you set it down.”

English novelist, game writer, and television executive producer

Naomi Alderman is an English novelist, game writer, and television executive producer. She is best known for her speculative science fiction novel The Power, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2017 and was later adapted into a television series for Amazon Studios. Her work moves between fiction, games, and television, with The Power as her best-known title. The novel brought her wide attention for its speculative premise and for the way it explores power, gender, and social change.