Ali Smith
Ali Smith is the author of the novels Hotel World—short-listed for both the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize—and The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award and was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize.
Her latest novel is There But For The.
From her Q & A with Dan Eltringham at the Financial Times:
What book do you wish you’d written?Read the complete interview.
The Legend of the Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth.
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What book changed your life?
A Calendar of Love by George Mackay Brown.
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What is the oddest thing you’ve done when researching a book?
I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.
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If you could own any painting, what would it be?
The wall fresco of St Catherine, by Masolino, in the church of San Clemente in Rome.
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What novel would you give a child to introduce them to literature?
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson or Hey Nostradamus by Douglas Coupland.
Learn about the "deceased author [Smith would] most like to watch crossing a room, just to see how she moves."
--Marshal Zeringue
