Ali Smith 377

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Her first book, Free Love, won the Saltire First Book Award. She is also the author of Like (1997); Other Stories and Other Stories (1999); Hotel World (2001), which was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award, the East England Arts Award of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002; The Whole Story and Other Stories (2003); The Accidental (2005), which won the 2005 Whitbread Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize; Girl Meets Boy (2007); The First Person and Other Stories (2008); There But For The (2011); Artful (2012); How to be both (2014), winner of The Goldsmiths Prize 2014 and the 2014 Costa Novel award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014, Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015 and the Folio Prize 2015.