Ali Smith is the author of six previous works of fiction, including the novel Hotel World, which was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002, and The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award in 2005 and was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and the 2006 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Her story collections include Free Love, which won a Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award and a Scottish Arts Council Award, and The Whole Story and Other Stories. Born in Inverness, Scotland in 1962, Smith now lives in Cambridge, England.
Praise For Ali Smith
“Ali Smith is a true original.” — Joyce Carol Oates
“Ali Smith has got style, ideas, and punch. Read her.” —Jeanette Winterson
“In prose marked by harmonious opposites, she’s childlike and wise, exuberant and subtle, humorously intelligent and provocatively dry.” —The Globe and Mail
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