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Encyclopedia > Ali Smith

Ali Smith is a writer, born in 1962 in Inverness, Scotland, to working class parents. She was raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. In a 2004 interview with writing magazine Mslexia, she talked briefly about the difficulty of becoming ill with CFS for a year and how it forced her to give up her job as a lecturer at Strathclyde University to focus on what she really wanted to do: writing. Openly gay, she has been with her partner Sarah for 17 years and dedicates all her books to her. 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Inverness (Inbhir Nis in Scottish Gaelic) is the only city in the Scottish Highlands. ... Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin: No one provokes me with impunity) (Scots: Wha daur meddle wi me) Scotlands location within the UK Languages with Official Status1 English Gaelic Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ... Mslexia [1]is a subscription-only British magazine for women writers, edited by Debbie Taylor. ... CFS is an acronym for: Canadian Forces Station - see Canadian Forces Base. ... The University of Strathclyde in Scotland is a top research-led British University which originated as Andersons Institution in 1796. ...


Short story collections

The Whole Story and Other Stories (2003)


Other Stories and Other Stories (1999)


Free Love and Other Stories (1995), awarded the Saltire First Book of the Year award.


Novels

The Accidental (2004), shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize. The Man-Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Booker Prize, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original full-length novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth, or the Republic of Ireland in the English language. ...



Hotel World (2001), awarded the Encore Award, a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and the inaugural Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize for Fiction. The Orange Prize for Fiction Launched in 1996 for female writers, the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction is the United Kingdoms largest annual literary award for a single novel. ... The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in...



Like (1997)


External Links

http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth91


http://www.mslexia.co.uk/back_contents18.htm


http://books.guardian.co.uk/bookerprize2005/story/0,16347,1546471,00.html


http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,938610,00.html


http://books.guardian.co.uk/originalfiction/story/0,13773,1010535,00.html


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The Popkorn Junkie :: Ali (1088 words)
I was expecting a biography of Muhammad Ali's entire life, from youth to old age, but instead received a fraction of his life, beginning with the fight in which he first won the heavyweight championship, and ending with the famous 'Rumble in the Jungle'.
Smith, Voight, Foxx, and Peebles do a fantastic job of keeping us interested for a majority of the film, but the rest is so bogged down with senseless scenes and interludes that we find our eyes slowly beginning to show signs of tiredness.
"Ali" is a good film for people who enjoy sitting through lengthy amounts of time in a movie theater, and "Ali" is good for anyone who wants a brief and fractionated history of the great fighter, but anyone looking for a great biography or an in-depth psychological examination into his mind will be highly disappointed.
Smith, Ali | Authors | Guardian Unlimited Books (396 words)
Ali Smith learned to read at the age of three from the labels on her elder siblings' singles collection.
Smith's work has been the subject of critical acclaim from the publication of her first Saltire award-winning collection of stories, Free Love and Other Stories, in 1995.
This semi-experimental work showcases Smith's ability to play around with formal narrative structure but also demonstrates that the powerful way in which she captured the mind of a younger narrator in her earlier novel, Hotel World, was not a one-off.
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