Ali Smith
, b. 1962
Smith was born in Inverness, and received her first degree from University of Aberdeen. Smith attended Newnham College, Cambridge, studying for a PhD in American and Irish modernism, but due to her work writing plays she did not complete her PhD.
In 1995 Smith published her first book, Free Love and Other Stories, which won the Saltire First Book of the Year award and Scottish Arts Council Book award. She has since published four short story collections, nine novels and one nonfiction title. In addition Smith also writes for The Guardian, The Scotsman, New Statesman and the Time Literary Supplement.
Smith was awarded Commander of the Mothe Excellent order on the British Empire (CBE) in 2015 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 2007.
Bio prepared by Chloe Roberta Sadler, University of Roehampton, sadlerc2929@gmail.com
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