![]() She gave herself three years to make it, and the rest is history.Ī published author since 1995, Smith has won numerous awards, including the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Goldsmith’s prize, as well as being shortlisted innumerable times for the Booker Prize. After realising that the increasingly commercialised world of academia was not for her, Smith proceeded to go into writing. Her doctorate, she explains, was on ‘the importance of the ordinary in modernist literature.’ Despite being an ‘unpopular topic’ for the time, she persisted in hoping to reclaim modernism from nihilism, with her aim ultimately being to explore the understories of all works. ![]() Fast forward many years later, and Smith is working as an academic. She describes learning how to read from a very young age by reading song titles off records. Born in Inverness in 1962, Smith’s love of literature started early. ‘Whatever their form, Smith’s fictions return to certain themes – duality, love and its loss, time and its passing, how we can find one another – blending them with political concerns … there is a bringing together of the fabular and the quotidian that is both uncanny and strikingly fertile.’- Alex ClarkĪ writer who revels in the boundless nature of language, our world and stories, Ali Smith’s work is experimentation at its finest. ![]()
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