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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
Collections
Collection of Short Stories (1995)
Free Love and Other Stories (1998)
Other Stories and Other Stories (1999)
The Whole Story and Other Stories (2003)
The Brighton Book (2005) (with Louis de Bernières, Meg Rosoff and Jeanette Winterson)
Writ (2006)
The First Person: And Other Stories (2008)
Ox-Tales:Fire (2009) (with Geoff Dyer, Sebastian Faulks, Mark Haddon, Victoria Hislop, John Le Carré, Vikram Seth, Lionel Shriver, William Sutcliffe, Jeanette Winterson and Xiaolu Guo)
Free Love and Other Stories (1998)
Other Stories and Other Stories (1999)
The Whole Story and Other Stories (2003)
The Brighton Book (2005) (with Louis de Bernières, Meg Rosoff and Jeanette Winterson)
Writ (2006)
The First Person: And Other Stories (2008)
Ox-Tales:Fire (2009) (with Geoff Dyer, Sebastian Faulks, Mark Haddon, Victoria Hislop, John Le Carré, Vikram Seth, Lionel Shriver, William Sutcliffe, Jeanette Winterson and Xiaolu Guo)
Plays
Series contributed to
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)
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
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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." |  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." | |
 A Life Apart (2010) Neela Mukherjee "Incisive and poetic, sensual and intelligent." |
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