Ali Smith

Ali Smith was born in 1962 in Inverness, Scotland, and currently resides in Cambridge, England. A novelist, playwright, critic, and journalist, she is considered one of the leading and most original voices in the English-speaking world and contemporary literature in general. She has even been described as the "successor to Virginia Woolf." "Autumn" (2016), the first standalone volume of a novel quartet titled "The Seasonal Quartet," was shortlisted for the 2017 Booker Prize. This marks the fourth time her work has been shortlisted for this prestigious award. The previous three instances were for her works "Hotel World" (2001), "The Accidental" (2005), and "How to Be Both" (2014). The latter, which received significant awards (Goldsmiths Prize, Costa Book Award, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction), was published in Greek (Πώς να είσαι δύο, translated by Nikos A. Manthe) by Kastaniotis Editions in 2015.