On my radar: Ali Smith’s cultural highlights

The award-winning Scottish author on a brilliant exhibition in Paris, a talismanic collection of new poetry and an apocalyptic novel like no other

Born in Inverness in 1962, Ali Smith has published 12 novels, including How to Be Both, which won the Women’s prize for fiction, the Goldsmiths prize and the Costa novel of the year award, and her “seasonal quartet”, starting withAutumnin 2016. She has been shortlisted twice for both the Booker prize and the Orange prize with Hotel World and The Accidental, and has also published several short story collections, plays and nonfiction. Next, she is chair of the judges for the 2023 Rathbones Folio prize, the winner of which is announced on 27 March. She lives in Cambridge.