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Artful is a 2012 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith and published by Penguin Books. It was shortlisted for the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize (2013).

Plot
This book is based off of four lectures give by Ali Smith at University of Oxford, the Weidenfeld lectures of European comparative literature. The four headings are "On Time", "On Form", On Edge" and "On Offer and On Reflection"

It has two fictional characters. One is a woman mourning her dead lover and the other is her dead lover who still seems to be around. She speaks to the mourning woman in Greek, steals belongings and causes a nuisance. The dead woman was working on some lectures when her life ended and the living one works with trees.

A guardian critic argued if this book has a central subject, it's the relationship between thought and art' and Smith continually explores different artists throughout the book such as the surrealists, Shakespeare and Jackie Kay.