Books & Spoken Word
Kamila Shamsie Meets Ali Smith
- Artists
- Ali Smith, Kamila Shamsie
Two of the UK’s leading fiction writers, Ali Smith and Kamila Shamsie, discuss how classic tales continue to feed modern fiction and storytellers.
Kamila Shamsie is the Orange and Baileys Prize-shortlisted author of Burnt Shadows and A God in Every Stone. Her latest novel, Home Fire, longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize, is a contemporary reimagining of Sophocles’ Antigone.
Ali Smith has won numerous awards, including the Costa Book Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Baileys Prize and the 2013 Bristol Festival of Ideas Best Book, and been shortlisted for many others includingthe Man Booker Prize four times.
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