Ali Smith
Scotland (1962 - )
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Smith writes for The Guardian, The Scotsman and the TLS.
Novels
Collections
Free Love and Other Stories (1998)
Other Stories and Other Stories (1999)
The Whole Story and Other Stories (2003)
The Brighton Book (2005) (with Louis de Bernières, Meg Rosoff and Jeanette Winterson)
Writ (2006)
The First Person (2008)
Ox-Tales:Fire (2009) (with Geoff Dyer, Sebastian Faulks, Mark Haddon, Victoria Hislop, John Le Carré, Vikram Seth, Lionel Shriver, William Sutcliffe, Jeanette Winterson and Xiaolu Guo)
Road Stories (2012) (with Hanan Al-Shaykh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Russell Hoban, Deborah Levy, Kamila Shamsie, Iain Sinclair, Eleanor Thom and Clare Wigfall)
Six Shorts (2013) (with Junot Díaz, Mark Haddon, Sarah Hall, Cynan Jones and Toby Litt)
Shire (2013)
Public Library and Other Stories (2015)
Other Stories and Other Stories (1999)
The Whole Story and Other Stories (2003)
The Brighton Book (2005) (with Louis de Bernières, Meg Rosoff and Jeanette Winterson)
Writ (2006)
The First Person (2008)
Ox-Tales:Fire (2009) (with Geoff Dyer, Sebastian Faulks, Mark Haddon, Victoria Hislop, John Le Carré, Vikram Seth, Lionel Shriver, William Sutcliffe, Jeanette Winterson and Xiaolu Guo)
Road Stories (2012) (with Hanan Al-Shaykh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Russell Hoban, Deborah Levy, Kamila Shamsie, Iain Sinclair, Eleanor Thom and Clare Wigfall)
Six Shorts (2013) (with Junot Díaz, Mark Haddon, Sarah Hall, Cynan Jones and Toby Litt)
Shire (2013)
Public Library and Other Stories (2015)
Plays
Novellas
Series contributed to
Elsewhere
1. Here (2012) (with Theresa Breslin, Karen Campbell, Anne Fine, Debi Gliori, Alasdair Gray, A L Kennedy, William McIlvanney, Miguel Syjuco, Alan Warner and Yiyun Li)
Elsewhere Box Set (omnibus) (2012) (with Roddy Doyle and Michael Morpurgo)
1. Here (2012) (with Theresa Breslin, Karen Campbell, Anne Fine, Debi Gliori, Alasdair Gray, A L Kennedy, William McIlvanney, Miguel Syjuco, Alan Warner and Yiyun Li)
Elsewhere Box Set (omnibus) (2012) (with Roddy Doyle and Michael Morpurgo)
Anthologies edited
Brilliant Careers (2000) (with Kasia Boddy and Sarah Wood)
Shorts (2000)
Pretext 5: Fiction; Criticism; Poetry: Blow Up Your TV (2002) (with Julia Bell)
Word Jig (2003) (with Michel Faber and Andrew Greig)
Mays 2003 (2003)
New Writing: No. 13 (2005) (with Toby Litt)
The Reader (2006)
The Book Lover (2008)
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (2009) (with Kasia Boddy and Sarah Wood)
Shorts (2000)
Pretext 5: Fiction; Criticism; Poetry: Blow Up Your TV (2002) (with Julia Bell)
Word Jig (2003) (with Michel Faber and Andrew Greig)
Mays 2003 (2003)
New Writing: No. 13 (2005) (with Toby Litt)
The Reader (2006)
The Book Lover (2008)
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (2009) (with Kasia Boddy and Sarah Wood)
Non fiction
Awards
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Ali Smith recommends
Beware of Pity (1939) Stefan Zweig "Frightening gripping an intoxicating, morally shocking read." | Hawkfall (1974) George Mackay Brown "George MacKay Brown is one of the masters of short story form." | If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things (2002) Jon McGregor "A tremendous read. The whole book quivers, picks up its detail like a sensitive antenna, immensely fragile, yet in that unstoppable lyrical energy immensely tough." | |
Joseph Knight (2003) James Robertson "A work of cunning and great assurance." | An Evening of Long Goodbyes (2003) Paul Murray "A lyrical, satirical tour de force, a huge, hilarious elegy. A surreal and very funny festival of truths, fictions, luck, and love. How can this be a first novel? A triumph." | The History of Love (2005) Nicole Krauss "A beauty of a book, totally alive, made with real energy and nerve and craft. It restores your faith in fiction. It restores all sorts of faith." | |
Wish I Was Here (2006) Jackie Kay "No one in the world writes short stories like Jackie Kay. This is a collection full of voice, life, hilarity. Her writing has a truthfulness that's both hard-won and beautiful." |  Girl On a Stick (2006) Kathleen Bryson "Sassy, clever, bright, dark, true, and, most importantly, alive. A huge book, and full of goodness." | Fair Play (2007) Tove Jansson "Fair Play is very fine art." | |
A Life Apart (2008) Neel Mukherjee "Incisive and poetic, sensual and intelligent." |  Black Rock (2009) Amanda Smyth "Amanda Smyth writes like a descendant of Jean Rhys. Black Rock is a powerful cocktail of heat and beautiful coolness, written in a heady, mesmerising yet translucent prose which marks Smyth out as a born novelist." | Strip the Willow (2009) John Aberdein "His writing is witty, alive... the kind of spirit which blends the literal and the imagination." | |
Homecomings (2010) Donald Paterson "A writer of litheness, humanity, wisdom and ambition, and a truly great storyteller. You won't want this novel to end." | Perfect Lives (2010) Polly Samson "An unexpected combination of romp and classical: though-provoking, sassy and comforting." | The Echo Chamber (2011) Luke Williams "Original, brilliant, inconceivable. It gives a reader new ears." | |
London Lies Beneath (2016) Stella Duffy "A writer who never lets you down." |
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