Ali Smith
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| Born | 1962 Inverness, Scotland |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Period | 1995–present |
Ali Smith (born 1962 in Inverness) is a British writer.
She was born to working-class parents,[1] raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge.[2][3] She studied at the University of Aberdeen and then at Newnham College, Cambridge, for a PhD that was never finished.[1] She worked as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde until she fell ill with CFS/ME. Following this she became a full-time writer[4] and now writes for The Guardian, The Scotsman, and the Times Literary Supplement.[5] Openly gay,[6] she lives in Cambridge with her partner Sarah Wood.[1]
In 2007 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature [7]
In 2009, she donated the short story Last (previously published in the Manchester Review Online) to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the 'Fire' collection.[8]
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[edit] Short story collections
- Free Love and Other Stories (1995), awarded the Saltire First Book of the Year award.[4]
- Other Stories and Other Stories (1999)[2]
- The Whole Story and Other Stories (2003)[2]
- The First Person and Other Stories (2008)[9]
[edit] Novels
- Like (1997)[2]
- Hotel World (2001), awarded the Encore Award, a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and the inaugural Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.[2] The novel was adapted for the stage by Kidbrooke secondary school and was performed at the Greenwich Theatre and the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.[10][11]
- The Accidental (2005), shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and won the 2005 Whitbread Novel of the Year award.[2]
- Girl Meets Boy (2007), winner of Diva magazine readers’ choice Book of the Year,[12] Sundial Scottish Arts Council Novel of the Year.[13]
- There But For The (2011), cited by the Guardian book review as one of the best novels of the year.
[edit] Plays
[edit] Other projects
- Ali Smith partnered with the Scottish band Trashcan Sinatras and wrote the lyrics to a song called "Half An Apple", a love song about keeping half an apple spare for a loved one who is gone. The song was released on March 5, 2007, on the album Ballads of the Book.[3]
- In 2008 Ali Smith produced The Book Lover a collection of her favourite writing including pices from Sylvia Plath, Muriel Spark, Grace Paley, and Margaret Atwood. It also includes work from lesser known writers like Joseph Roth and Clarice Lispector.[16]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Winters, Jeanette (25 April 2003). "Ali Smith". The Times. http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/journalism_01/journalism_01_item.asp?journalism_01ID=90. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
- ^ a b c d e f "Ali Smith". Contemporary Writers in the UK. The British Council. http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth91. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ a b Matthews, Elizabeth (30 March 2007). "Novel approach struck a chord with Inverness writer". The Inverness Courier. http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/2474/Novel_approach_struck_a_chord_with_Inverness_writer.html. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ a b "Ali Smith". guardian.co.uk. Guardian News and Media Limited. 22 July 2008. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/11/alismith. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ http://www.theshortreview.com/reviews/AliSmithFirstPersonAndOtherStories.htm
- ^ http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/books/article3021433.ece?lightbox=false
- ^ "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
- ^ Oxfam: Ox-Tales
- ^ Guest, Katy (3 October 2008). "The First Person and Other Stories, By Ali Smith". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-first-person-and-other-stories-by-ali-smith-949346.html. Retrieved 23 April 2009.
- ^ Buksh, Ayshea (30 March 2007). "School actors take centre stage". BBC London. http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/03/30/theatre_feature.shtml. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
- ^ Dawson Scott, Robert and Maxwell, Dominic (30 July 2007). "The 20 must-see acts at the Edinburgh Fringe". London: The Times. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/article2156230.ece. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
- ^ http://www.themyths.co.uk/?p=22
- ^ "Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year". Scottish Arts Council. http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/artsinscotland/literature/projects/bookawards2008/bookawards2008finalists.aspx. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/smith-ali.html
- ^ http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/smith-ali.html
- ^ http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/ali-smith/book-lover.htm
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