Ali Smith wins Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015

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It says something about the way prize juries work that Ali Smith’s exceptional novel How to be Both has not won any of the major literary awards for which it has been shortlisted – until now. Anyone can see its virtuosity, but I imagine it's so unusual that it has often split the vote. On Wednesday night, How to be Both won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize), and everyone who had championed the book since it was published almost a year ago breathed a sigh of relief. After not winning the Man Booker and not winning the Folio, there was this: fin