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Ali Smith
Novelist

Ali Smith

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Writing inventive fiction including How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet.

How to Be Both · Seasonal Quartet

Born
24 August 1962
Birthplace
Inverness

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Ali Smith

Ali Smith is a Scottish novelist, short-story writer and playwright whose fiction connects art, memory and contemporary life.

Early life

Education

Grew up in Inverness and studied at Aberdeen before undertaking postgraduate work at Cambridge.

Career

  1. 1990–1992

    University teaching

    Lectured at Strathclyde before returning to Cambridge.

  2. 1995

    First collection

    Published Free Love and Other Stories.

  3. 1997

    First novel

    Published Like.

Selected work

How to Be Both

Linked two narratives across different historical periods.

Seasonal Quartet

Published Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer.

Gliff

Published a novel about surveillance and exclusion.

Beyond work

Public support

Contributed stories to charity anthologies and became a patron of Refugee Tales.

Sources & photo creditBiography and career ↗Biographical references ↗

Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.

Photo: TimDuncan. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.