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Ali Smith

Ali Smith

Scottishb. August 24, 1962Literary Fiction

Scottish novelist whose formally experimental fiction celebrates language, art, and human connection. How to Be Both won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Goldsmiths Prize. Her Seasonal Quartet of novels responds in real time to Brexit Britain.

Works

  • How to Be BothTwo stories of a Renaissance painter and modern girl explore form and form-breaking→
  • Hotel WorldHotel guests' lives intersect across one hundred years through supernatural time→
  • The AccidentalMysterious stranger disrupts a family's summer and reveals hidden truths→
  • There but for theA man isolates himself in a house, visited by strangers seeking connection→
  • AutumnWoman confronts climate change and her past lover's legacy in autumn London→

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