“I had a year of panic attacks. I was feeling really pressured, like I could never do it again. With a first novel, you put things on hold because it takes so much mental energy and self-belief to keep on writing.”

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.