An open letter signed by more than 50 authors including Zadie Smith, Ali Smith and Katherine Rundell calls for investment firm Baillie Gifford to be dropped as main sponsor for 2024Authors including Zadie Smith, Ali Smith and Katherine Rundell have called on the Edinburgh International book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-08-11 12:45:25 UTC ]
Ali Smith's first novel since her seasonal quartet takes place in our pandemic-inflected world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-04 11:00:00 UTC ]
After previous seminars showcased work from Scotland and Wales, this year the focus is on writing from Northern Ireland. Chaired by novelist and non-fiction writer Glenn Patterson, director at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast – a familiar and popular name for British... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2022-02-16 12:14:57 UTC ]
Authors Ali Smith and Natasha Brown will judge the 10th Goldsmiths Prize, joined by the New Statesman’s Tom Gatti and prize founder Dr Tim Parnell. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-27 01:39:38 UTC ]
American writer Janice Deal’s “Lost City” has won the Moth Short Story Prize 2021, judged by Ali Smith, while Stratford-upon-Avon butcher Kathy Stevens has scooped second prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-01 16:38:23 UTC ]
Ali Smith has won the inaugural Pleasure of Reading Prize, in recognition of her body of work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-01 20:56:05 UTC ]
Ali Smith and Joshua Yaffa have won this year's £3,000 Orwell Prizes for Political Fiction and Political Writing respectively. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-25 03:14:57 UTC ]
The Booker-winning novelist is relaunching a series of neglected novels by black British writers. She explains why they deserve a new readership In today’s culture, it’s as though black British literary history began relatively recently, and new books are published without reference to or... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-01-30 11:00:07 UTC ]
The novel is the bravura performance of a writer, poised at the edge of the day’s vast darkness, gathering all the warmth and light she can muster. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-08-14 15:51:08 UTC ]
In 2012, the literary critic Suzi Feay lamented the lack of new lesbian voices in UK publishing. Describing what she saw as “a shortage of lesbian writers in Britain today”, she wondered who would follow in the footsteps of established authors like Ali Smith, Sarah Waters and Jeanette Winterson.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-22 12:20:04 UTC ]
Everyone peaked too early. You remember. The beginning of lockdown, when suddenly half of your friends were FaceTiming you about Tiger King, or downloading a language app, and so many people ordered yoga mats online that they took an estimated six weeks to be delivered. Now the yoga mat... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-05-22 15:30:00 UTC ]
Richard Osman, Ali Smith and Dolly Alderton were among the line-up of authors at a packed Penguin General 2020 Spring Showcase. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-12 13:10:30 UTC ]
Indie press 404 Ink is publishing a student’s collection of life and careers advice from from successful Scots including Andy Murray and Ali Smith. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-25 19:36:09 UTC ]
David Nicholls, Ali Smith and Ian McEwan are among the line-up for this year’s the Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-01 05:28:19 UTC ]
Ali Smith's Winter (Hamish Hamilton), Laurie Penny's Bitch Doctrine (Bloomsbury) and Reni Eddo-Lodge's Jhalak Prize-winning Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race (Bloomsbury) are among the10 titles longlisted for the 2018 Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ali Smith’s seasonal novel Winter (Hamish Hamilton), Sally Rooney’s "perfectly observed" début Conversations with Friends (Faber) and the eagerly anticipated first instalment of Philip Pullman’s Book of Dust trilogy, La Belle Sauvage (Penguin/David Fickling Books), were among the critics’... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Withdrawal from the EU would lead to "suffering" in the creative industries, according to an open letter signed by 220 thought-leaders in the literary world, including 2015 Baileys winner Ali Smith and Granta editor Max Porter, recent winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tales by Ali Smith and Chris Cleave are to contribute to a short story collection highlighting the “frighteningly common” experience of Europe’s refugees. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writers David Mitchell, Ali Smith, Cathy Cassidy, Nick Hornby and David Nicholls are among the top names who have signed an open letter supporting the occupiers of Carnegie Library and condemning the proposed changes to the Lambeth library service. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Books is to reissue H G Wells’ The Rights of Man, with a new introduction by Ali Smith. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]