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Ali Smith CBE FRSL (born 24 August 1962) is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Sebastian Barry described her in 2016 as "Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting".
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Her books have won and been shortlisted for many awards. Her recent publications include How To Be Both (2014), winner of the Goldsmiths and Baileys Prize and the Costa Book Award for Best Novel; a collection of short stories, Public Library (2015), and the novels Autumn (2016) and ...
Aug 5, 2020 · Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer, Ali Smith's Booker Prize-shortlisted, bestselling Seasonal Quartet, is now complete – a unique feat of modern literature that records perhaps the strangest time in living history.
Ali Smith is a writer, born in Inverness, Scotland, to working-class parents. She was raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at Aberdeen, and then at Cambridge, for a Ph.D. that was never finished.
How to Be Both is a 2014 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith, first published by Hamish Hamilton. It was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and the 2015 Folio Prize. It won the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize, the Novel Award in the 2014 Costa Book Awards and the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
In this masterful and exuberant novel, Scottish author Ali Smith brings to life five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives. The Accidental. Ali Smith’s inventive portrayal of a family unravelled by a mysterious visitor. Who is Amber? And why has she joined the Smarts on holiday? How to Be Both.
May 2, 2022 · Ali Smith’s new novel, “Companion Piece,” is set in a pandemic-ravaged, post-Brexit Britain, with a perplexing choice at its center.
Aug 17, 2020 · Ali Smith’s new novel, “Summer,” is the concluding volume in her immersive, prickly and politically ardent seasonal quartet. The previous novels in the series, “Autumn,” “Winter” and “Spring,”...
Jun 26, 2015 · Award-winning author Ali Smith is an original — inventive, versatile, full of wit and linguistic exuberance, alongside an engaged political and social sensibility.
Oct 11, 2016 · Ali Smith speaks with book blogger Eric Karl Anderson about her moving and inventive novel, Autumn
