EVENTS & APPEARANCES

BBC The Third Information Crisis

In this wide-ranging series, award-winning novelist Naomi Alderman, author of The Power and The Future, argues we are living through the third great information crisis. Following the invention of writing, and then printing, we now have digital communications technology. In what she describes as a ‘speculative historical project’, Naomi traces the parallels between these moments, asking if we can learn from the past to help us cope with the ‘enormous wave of information’ from the internet and social media that we are all faced with today. Drawing on the work of philosophers and historians, she explores the way new technologies open up new ways of thinking and their enormous impact on our society.

The Graham Norton Book Club

Disobedience, Naomi Alderman’s story of clandestine lesbian love amid the Orthodox Jewish community, is the featured book and Katie Price reveals all in her new autobiography, This Is Me.

BBC HARDtalk

Stephen Sackur speaks to the novelist and computer game creator Naomi Alderman. Her most recent novel – The Future – is a techno thriller set at the end of days. Is the apocalypse she imagines all too possible?

 

A Cage Went in Search Of A Bird

 

Date: NOV 19
Time: 19:00
Place: Online

A Cage Went In Search of A Bird is a collection of brand-new short stories written by some of the most original literary minds of today and inspired by Kafka – published to commemorate the centenary of his death.

We invite three of those writers to talk about their process of taking an idea, a mood or a line from Kafka’s work and use it to spark something new.

Join us for an engaging conversation between literary critic Hephzibah Anderson and Naomi Alderman, Tommy Orange and Leone Ross; three brilliant writers with very different approaches to this project.

Vilnius Book Fair

 

Date: FEB 28 – MAR 02

Place: Vilnius, Lithuania