How to Be Both

Name: How to Be Both
Author: Ali Smith

Ali Smith · First published 2014

About This Book

This 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.

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Women’s Prize for Fiction (Winners)
The Women’s Prize for Fiction (known as the Orange Prize from 1996 to 2012 and the Baileys Women’s Prize from 2014 to 2017) is awarded each year to the best full-length novel written in English by a woman of any nationality. Founded in 1996 to celebrate fiction by women, it has become one of the most prominent literary awards in the United Kingdom. Its winners run from Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles and Barbara Kingsolver, the only writer to have taken the prize twice. This list collects the winning novels by year.

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