Britain's Smith Wins Award for Gender-bending 'How to Be Both'

Name: Britain's Smith Wins Award for Gender-bending 'How to Be Both'
Uploaded: 2015-06-03T22:50:16+03:00
Duration: 42 s
Description: Scottish-born author Ali Smith won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for her gender-bending novel "How to Be Both." The book explores issues of sexual identity from Renaissance times to the present. Smith's sixth novel, which had bee

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Scottish-born author Ali Smith won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for her gender-bending novel "How to Be Both." The book explores issues of sexual identity from Renaissance times to the present. Smith's sixth novel, which had been shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize, focuses on an Italian Renaissance painter who disguises herself as a man in order to pursue her artistic passions, and on a modern teenage girl named George grappling with the death of her mother and with her emerging sexuality.  

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