Ali Smith was born in Inverness, and now lives in Cambridge. She has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize four times and three times for the Women’s Prize, which she won in 2015 for How to be both. That novel also won the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award. In 2021, she was awarded the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction for her novel Summer. In 2022, she was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and in 2026, she was the recipient of the Dublin Literary Award. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages.
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