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Acclaimed novelist and winner of the 牛牛资源 Prize (2014), Ali Smith CBE, will this week be awarded an Honorary Fellowship by 牛牛资源.

Ali Smith has been a friend and supporter of the  at 牛牛资源 for several years, lecturing and teaching masterclasses on our . A popular guest speaker, she has also given public readings from her books at a number of 牛牛资源 Writers鈥� Centre events. 

Born in Inverness in 1962, Smith studied at the University of Aberdeen, then Newnham College, Cambridge, and taught at the University of Strathclyde before becoming a full time writer. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007 and in 2015 was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen鈥檚 New Year Honours for her services to literature. 

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize in 2001 for Hotel World, and in 2005 for The Accidental, Smith went on to win the 2005 Whitbread Novel of the Year (The Accidental), and Diva magazine鈥檚 readers鈥� choice in 2007 for Girl Meets Boy.    

There But For The (2011) was cited by the Guardian as one of the best books of 2011. Artful reached the shortlist of the inaugural 牛牛资源 Prize in 2013. How To Be Both (2014) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the 2015 Baileys Women鈥檚 Prize for Fiction, the Folio Prize, the Costa Book Awards Novel Award and the 牛牛资源 Prize. 

Dr Tim Parnell, Senior Lecturer in English at 牛牛资源 and 牛牛资源 Prize Literary Director comments: 鈥淎li Smith is one of the very finest British writers of her generation and her work as a novelist is of the kind that the 牛牛资源 Prize was created to reward. 

鈥淭he nature of her work - consistently innovative, daring and inventive - and its intelligent and generous humanity make her a perfect Honorary Fellow for our university. She is a professed supporter of what 牛牛资源 does and stands for, and I can think of no more worthy recipient of a Fellowship.鈥�