Ali Smith
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in August 1962. She won the Saltire First Book Award and a Scottish Arts Council Award in 1995 for her first collection of stories, Free Love. Her first novel, Like, was published in 1997 and her second collection of stories, Other Stories and Other Stories, in 1999. Hotel World, her second novel, was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for Fiction and Orange Prize for Fiction. Her latest novel, The Accidental, was shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize in 2005. She lives in Cambridge.
