Event overview
Ali Smith will read from her work and reflect on the art of fiction.
The Goldsmiths Writers' Centre in association with the New Statesman presents the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2014, Ali Smith
Ali Smith will read from her work and reflect on the art of fiction.
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else.
How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre- bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance.
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of Artful, There but for the, Free Love, Like, Hotel World, Other Stories and Other Stories, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy and The First Person and Other Stories. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Orange Prize.
This event is free. Please book tickets at
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Jan 2015 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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