Ali Smith

British author and journalist · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1962 · age 64

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."

Ali Smith is read about 198 times a day, in 37 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.

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A life in dates

2022Austrian State Prize for European LiteratureAward2021Orwell Prize for Political FictionAward2020Europese LiteratuurprijsAward2015Commander of the Order of the British EmpireAward2012Hawthornden PrizeAward2007Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward2005Costa Book AwardsAward1995Saltire AwardsAward1962Born24 August 1962

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Awards

Austrian State Prize for European Literature2022

Orwell Prize for Political Fiction2021

Europese Literatuurprijs2020

Commander of the Order of the British Empire2015

Hawthornden Prize2012

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature2007

Costa Book Awards2005

Saltire Awards1995

Goldsmiths Prize

Encore Award

About this person

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.

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United Kingdom