Ali Smith Biography
Ali Smith is the author of six works of fiction, including the novel Hotel
World, which was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize
in 2001 and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year
Award in 2002, and The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award in 2005
and was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and the 2006 Orange Prize. Her
story collections include Free Love, which won the Saltire First Book
Award and a Scottish Arts Council Award, and The Whole Story and Other
Stories. Born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1962, Smith now lives in Cambridge,
England.
This biography was last updated on 11/28/2008.
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