# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:13:43.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ali-smith"
name: "Ali Smith"
slug: "ali-smith"
description: "Ali Smith CBE FRSL is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Sebastian Barry described her in 2016 as \"Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting.\" Smith released two, homophone novels in successive years, Gliff in 2024 followed by Glyph in 2026, which wrangle with contemporary social dilemmas and political topics."
tagline: "British author and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AliSmith2011.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-08-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.057328
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump