Leonora Carrington is a British born Surrealist painter and writer
now living in Mexico city who has been described, alongside people
such as Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro, as one of the leading lights
of the Surrealist movement. Born in Lancashire in 1917 to a strict
Catholic family she first came into contact with surrealism through
her lover, Surrealist painter Max Ernst, before moving to Mexico in
1942. The Hearing Trumpet, her most famous piece of writing, was
first published in France in 1974.
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and she lives in Cambridge.
She is the author of Free Love and Other Stories, Like,Other
Stories and Other Stories, Hotel World, The Whole Story and Other
Stories, The Accidental,Girl Meets Boy, The First Person and Other
Stories, There but for the, Artful, How to be both, and Public
library and other stories. Hotel World was shortlisted for the
Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and The Accidental was
shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Orange Prize. How to be both
won the Baileys Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel
Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize.
This book is so inspiring...I love its freedom, its humour and how
it invents its own laws. What specifically do I take from her? Her
wig
*Björk*
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