2016.11.06 阿里-史密斯 苏格兰作家

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Ali Smith is a Scottish writer. Born in Inverness in 1962, the youngest of five children by seven years, she says, "I grew up completely alone but with all the comforts of knowing I had a cushioning family structure around me - and yet I could free myself from it."

After reading English at Aberdeen and nearly completing a PhD at Cambridge, she started down an academic path, winning a lectureship at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, but she soon decided that academia wasn't for her.

She gave herself three years in which to make it as a writer. By then she had moved from writing poems, for which she had discovered an aptitude aged eight, to short stories.

Her first collection, Free Love and Other Stories, was published in 1995.

Since then she has written novels, including How to Be Both, and The Accidental, as well as plays. Nominated three times for the Booker Prize, her fiction has won numerous literary awards including the Goldsmiths Award, the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.



阿里-史密斯是一位苏格兰作家。她1962年出生于因弗内斯，是五个孩子中最年轻的一个，她说："我完全是一个人长大的，但我知道我周围有一个缓冲的家庭结构，这让我感到很舒服--但我又能把自己从这个结构中解放出来。"

在阿伯丁读完英语后，几乎在剑桥完成了博士学位，她开始走上学术道路，在格拉斯哥的斯特拉斯克莱德大学赢得了一个讲师职位，但她很快决定学术界不适合她。

她给自己三年的时间来做一个作家。那时，她已经从八岁时发现的诗歌写作转向短篇小说。

她的第一本小说集《自由之爱和其他故事》于1995年出版。

从那时起，她写了小说，包括《如何成为两个人》和《意外》，以及剧本。她的小说曾三次获得布克奖提名，并赢得了许多文学奖项，包括金史密斯奖、惠特布雷德年度小说奖和贝利斯妇女小说奖。