Ali Smith

Ali Smith (born 1962 in Inverness ) is a Scottish author.

Smith grew up in Inverness and currently lives in Cambridge. Smith studied at Aberdeen and then at Cambridge. She was busy after her studies at the University of Strathclyde as a lecturer. Smith was diagnosed with the chronic fatigue syndrome. Smith had to give up her job due to illness as a literature teacher and began work on her first collection of stories, Free Love and Other Stories.

Your publisher is originally the independent Scottish Canongate Books. Her books are then picked up by Penguin. In Germany their books to be laid at Luchterhand Literaturverlag.

For over 17 years Smith lives with her ​​partner Sarah Wood and devotes all books.

Works by Smith

Short stories ( selection)

• The First Person and Other Stories, Penguin, 2009 (Eng. The first person translated by Silvia Morawetz, Luchterhand Literature Verlag, Munich 2009)
• Ali Smith's Supersonic 70s (Pocket Penguins 70's, no. 30), Penguin, 2005 ( coincides with the beginning chapter of The Accidental match )
• The Whole Story and Other Stories, 2003
• Other Stories and Other Stories, 1999
• Free Love and Other Stories, 1995 ( received the Saltire First Book of the Year Award)

Novels

• There but for the, Hamish Hamilton, 2011. German properly by Silvia Morawetz: It would mnir exactly novel. Luchterhand Literature Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-630-87312-1.