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My hero
My hero: Ali Smith by Alex Clark
It’s fitting that such a generous and open novelist, and such a champion of other writers, should win this year’s Baileys women’s prize for fiction
Saturday interview
Baileys prize winner Ali Smith: 'The canon is traditionally male. That is what this book is about'
Her triumph in the women’s fiction prize confirmed her as one of our pre-eminent living writers. And, she says, the award acknowledges her own preoccupations – how to assert a complex female identity in a world that tells women to be simple
Saturday interviewBaileys prize winner Ali Smith: 'The canon is traditionally male. That is what this book is about'Her triumph in the women’s fiction prize confirmed her as one of our pre-eminent living writers. And, she says, the award acknowledges her own preoccupations – how to assert a complex female identity in a world that tells women to be simple
