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Ali Smith

Scotland (1962 - )

About Ali Smith

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Smith writes for The Guardian, The Scotsman and the TLS.

Novels

Like (1997)
Hotel World (2001)
The Accidental (2005)
There but for the (2011)

Collections

Plays

The Seer (2006)

Series contributed to

Myths
8. Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis (2007)

Anthologies edited

Brilliant Careers: The Virago Book of 20th Century Fiction (2000) (with Kasia Boddy and Sarah Wood)
Pretext 5: Fiction; Criticism; Poetry: Blow Up Your TV (2002) (with Julia Bell)
Shorts: The Macallan Scotland On Sunday Short Story Collection (2002)
Word Jig: New Fiction from Scotland (2003) (with Michel Faber, Andrew Greig)
Mays 2003: The May Anthologies (2003)
New Writing: No. 13 (2005) (with Toby Litt)
The Reader (2006)
The Book Lover (2008)
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (2009) (with Kasia Boddy and Sarah Wood)

Awards

	Orange Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (2001) : Hotel World
	The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2001) : Hotel World
	James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (2005) : The Accidental
	Whitbread Prize Best Novel winner (2005) : The Accidental
	The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2005) : The Accidental

Ali Smith recommends

Hawkfall (1974) George Mackay Brown "George MacKay Brown is one of the masters of short story form."	If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things (2002) Jon McGregor "A tremendous read. The whole book quivers, picks up its detail like a sensitive antenna, immensely fragile, yet in that unstoppable lyrical energy immensely tough."	An Evening of Long Goodbyes (2003) Paul Murray "A lyrical, satirical tour de force, a huge, hilarious elegy. A surreal and very funny festival of truths, fictions, luck, and love. How can this be a first novel? A triumph."
Joseph Knight (2004) James Robertson "A work of cunning and great assurance."	The History of Love (2005) Nicole Krauss "A beauty of a book, totally alive, made with real energy and nerve and craft. It restores your faith in fiction. It restores all sorts of faith."	Girl On a Stick (2006) Kathleen Bryson "Sassy, clever, bright, dark, true, and, most importantly, alive. A huge book, and full of goodness."
Wish I Was Here (2006) Jackie Kay "No one in the world writes short stories like Jackie Kay. This is a collection full of voice, life, hilarity. Her writing has a truthfulness that's both hard-won and beautiful."	Fair Play (2007) Tove Jansson "Fair Play is very fine art."	Strip the Willow (2009) John Aberdein "His writing is witty, alive... the kind of spirit which blends the literal and the imagination."
Black Rock (2009) Amanda Smyth "Amanda Smyth writes like a descendant of Jean Rhys. Black Rock is a powerful cocktail of heat and beautiful coolness, written in a heady, mesmerising yet translucent prose which marks Smyth out as a born novelist."	Homecomings (2010) Donald Paterson "A writer of litheness, humanity, wisdom and ambition, and a truly great storyteller. You won't want this novel to end."	A Life Apart (2010) Neel Mukherjee "Incisive and poetic, sensual and intelligent."
Perfect Lives (2010) Polly Samson "An unexpected combination of romp and classical: though-provoking, sassy and comforting."	The Echo Chamber (2011) Luke Williams "Original, brilliant, inconceivable. It gives a reader new ears."

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