THE guest director of Brighton Festival has been shortlisted for a writer's award.
Author Ali Smith, who helps curate this year's festival, is among a six-strong shortlist for this year's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
The Scottish writer has been nominated for her sixth novel.
Called How To Be Both, it is a dual narrative about a renaissance artist in the 1460s and a child of the 1960s.
The book influences an upcoming festival play called Being Both.
It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015, the Folio Prize for Fiction 2015 and won the Goldsmiths Prize.
Along with four of the other shortlisted writers, Ms Smith has been up for a Baileys award before.
The others are Rachel Cusk, Kamila Shamsie, Anne Tyler and Sarah Waters, along with debut novelist Laline Paull.
The winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction will be announced on June 3.
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