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Alderman wins S T prize
The novelist Naomi Alderman has won The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for her first book, Disobedience, about the tightly-knit world of North London's Orthodox Jews.
The judges were unanimous in their decision and singled out the 32-year-old’s novel for its wit, pace, intelligence and daring. Disobedience, published by Viking Penguin, recounts the upheaval when a rabbi's daughter, who has escaped the pious community of Hendon for worldly New York, returns home for her father's funeral.
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