“The women's movement gave me a set of tools to think about things like my body and how people react to me and the way that my dating life was going. It's a very practical movement - yes, it's about issues like how we can get more women MPs elected, but it's also about how feminism affects things like your relationship.”

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.