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'''Ali Smith''' is a Scottish author, playwright, and novelist whose works include ''How to Be Both'',<ref name="alismithboth"/> ''Autumn'', ''Artful'', ''Girl meets Boy'', and ''The First Person and Other Stories''.<ref> | '''Ali Smith''' is a Scottish author, playwright, and novelist whose works include ''How to Be Both'',<ref name="alismithboth" /> ''Autumn'', ''Artful'', ''Girl meets Boy'', and ''The First Person and Other Stories''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/68992.Ali_Smith|title=Ali Smith|website=www.goodreads.com|access-date=2022-08-03}}</ref> | ||
Ali was born in 1962 in Inverness. She studied for her degree at the University of Aberdeen. She completed her PhD "on the importance of the ordinary in modernist literature" in Cambridge. Smith taught in Glasgow, at the University of Strathclyde, for a couple of years, but disliked teaching.<ref name="alismithcambridge" /><ref name="alismithboth"/> | Ali was born in 1962 in Inverness. She studied for her degree at the University of Aberdeen. She completed her PhD "on the importance of the ordinary in modernist literature" in Cambridge. Smith taught in Glasgow, at the University of Strathclyde, for a couple of years, but disliked teaching.<ref name="alismithcambridge" /><ref name="alismithboth" /> | ||
She is openly gay and lives with her partner, the film-maker Sarah Wood, in Cambridge. While recovering from [[chronic fatigue syndrome]], she began to write.<ref name="alismithcambridge" /><ref name="alismithboth" /> | She is openly gay and lives with her partner, the film-maker Sarah Wood, in Cambridge. While recovering from [[chronic fatigue syndrome]], she began to write.<ref name="alismithcambridge" /><ref name="alismithboth" /> | ||
== Interviews == | == Interviews == | ||
"[At] the age of 27, she developed [[chronic fatigue syndrome]], from which it took her many months to recover."<ref name="alismith, 2014"/> “I got quite ill; I had a bout of chronic fatigue syndrome. It was like I'd hit a wall, so I waited quietly to see what would happen next. I had it very lightly – people have it much more harshly than I had it - but the 'lightly' I had it was horrible. I was pretty out of it for a year and a half.” About cycling, she stated: “For me it was fantastically practically useful, because Cambridge is flat. If you have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome it's quite hard to walk, but cycling is easier because it uses one third of the amount of energy that walking does. All of a sudden I was mobile again and it was just blessed relief.”<ref name="alismithboth"/> | "[At] the age of 27, she developed [[chronic fatigue syndrome]], from which it took her many months to recover."<ref name="alismith, 2014" /> “I got quite ill; I had a bout of chronic fatigue syndrome. It was like I'd hit a wall, so I waited quietly to see what would happen next. I had it very lightly – people have it much more harshly than I had it - but the 'lightly' I had it was horrible. I was pretty out of it for a year and a half.” About cycling, she stated: “For me it was fantastically practically useful, because Cambridge is flat. If you have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome it's quite hard to walk, but cycling is easier because it uses one third of the amount of energy that walking does. All of a sudden I was mobile again and it was just blessed relief.”<ref name="alismithboth" /> | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
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| url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/06/ali-smith-interview-how-to-be-both }}</ref> | | url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/06/ali-smith-interview-how-to-be-both }}</ref> | ||
<ref name="alismithboth"> | <ref name="alismithboth">{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/06/ali-smith-interview-how-to-be-both|title=Ali Smith: 'There are two ways to read this novel, but you're stuck with it – you'll end up reading one of them'|date=2014-09-06|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2022-08-03}}</ref> | ||
<ref name="alismithcambridge"> | <ref name="alismithcambridge">{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926070819/https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/ali-smith-winter-wordfest/story-22775729-detail/story.html|title=Ali Smith at Winter Wordfest {{!}} Cambridge News|date=2015-09-26|website=web.archive.org|access-date=2022-08-03}}</ref> | ||
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[[Category:People with ME, CFS, and/or FMS]] | [[Category:People with ME, CFS, and/or FMS]] | ||
Revision as of 11:40, August 3, 2022
Ali Smith is a Scottish author, playwright, and novelist whose works include How to Be Both,[1] Autumn, Artful, Girl meets Boy, and The First Person and Other Stories.[2]
Ali was born in 1962 in Inverness. She studied for her degree at the University of Aberdeen. She completed her PhD "on the importance of the ordinary in modernist literature" in Cambridge. Smith taught in Glasgow, at the University of Strathclyde, for a couple of years, but disliked teaching.[3][1]
She is openly gay and lives with her partner, the film-maker Sarah Wood, in Cambridge. While recovering from chronic fatigue syndrome, she began to write.[3][1]
Interviews[edit | edit source]
"[At] the age of 27, she developed chronic fatigue syndrome, from which it took her many months to recover."[4] “I got quite ill; I had a bout of chronic fatigue syndrome. It was like I'd hit a wall, so I waited quietly to see what would happen next. I had it very lightly – people have it much more harshly than I had it - but the 'lightly' I had it was horrible. I was pretty out of it for a year and a half.” About cycling, she stated: “For me it was fantastically practically useful, because Cambridge is flat. If you have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome it's quite hard to walk, but cycling is easier because it uses one third of the amount of energy that walking does. All of a sudden I was mobile again and it was just blessed relief.”[1]
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Ali Smith: 'There are two ways to read this novel, but you're stuck with it – you'll end up reading one of them'". the Guardian. September 6, 2014. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
- ↑ "Ali Smith". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Ali Smith at Winter Wordfest | Cambridge News". web.archive.org. September 26, 2015. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
- ↑ Alex Clark (September 6, 2014), Ali Smith: 'There are two ways to read this novel, but you're stuck with it – you'll end up reading one of them' (The Guardian)
