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Ali Smith

Ali Smith

Born

Ali Smith was born in Inverness, Scotland. She is the author of several critically acclaimed and award-winning novels and short stories

Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. The Accidental was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. How to be Both won the Bailey’s Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Autumn was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2017 and Winter was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2018.

All nominated books

Hotel World
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
Ali Smith’s highly original literary double-take is a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions
Autumn
The first volume of a shape-shifting seasonal quartet from Ali Smith about our time, past time, ageing, love and stories themselves