Ali Smith

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ali Smith
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Aug 24, 1962(1962-08-24)
Age	62
Birthplace	Inverness
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Capricorn

Ali Smith Biography

Ali Smith is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on August 24, 1962 in Inverness, United Kingdom. Smith was born in Inverness on 24 August 1962 to Ann and Donald Smith. Her parents were working- class and she was raised in a council house in Inverness. From 1967 to 1974 she attended St. Joseph’s RC Primary school, then went on to Inverness High School, leaving in 1980.

Smith moved to Edinburgh from Cambridge in 1990 and worked as a lecturer in Scottish, English and American literature at the University of Strathclyde. She left the University in 1992 because she was suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome. She returned to Cambridge to recuperate.

In 2007 Smith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

In 2009, she donated the short story Last (previously published in the Manchester Review Online) to Oxfam’s ‘Ox-Tales’ project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the ‘Fire’ collection.

From 1985 to 1990 she attended Newnham College, Cambridge, studying for a PhD in American and Irish modernism. During her time at Cambridge, she began writing plays and as a result did not complete her doctorate.

Ali Smith Net Worth

Ali Smith is one of the richest Writer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ali Smith 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ali Smith CBE FRSL (born 24 August 1962) is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Sebastian Barry described her in 2016 as “Scotland’s Nobel laureate-in-waiting”.

She studied a joint degree in English language and literature at the University of Aberdeen from 1980 to 1985, coming first in her class in 1982 and gaining a top first in Senior Honours English in 1984. She won the University’s Bobby Aitken Memorial Prize for Poetry in 1984.

While studying for her PhD at Cambridge Smith wrote several plays which were staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Cambridge Footlights. After some time working in Scotland, she returned to Cambridge to concentrate on her writing, in particular, focussing on short stories and freelancing as the fiction reviewer for The Scotsman newspaper. In 1995 she published her first book, Free Love and Other Stories, a collection of 12 short stories which won the Saltire First Book of the Year award and Scottish Arts Council Book Award.

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Who is Ali Smith Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Ali Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Ali Smith celebrates birthday on August 24 of every year.

Top Facts about Ali Smith

1. Ali Smith is a Scottish author and journalist.
2. She was born on August 24, 1962 in Inverness, Scotland.
3. Smith has written over ten novels and several short story collections.
4. Her novel “How to be Both” won the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2015.
5. Smith was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 2015 for her services to literature.
6. She is known for her experimental writing style and use of unconventional narrative structures.
7. Smith has also worked as a lecturer at various universities including Cambridge and Oxford.
8. Her latest novel “Summer” was published in August 2020 as part of a seasonal quartet series.
9. In addition to fiction, she has also written non-fiction works such as “Artful” which explores the relationship between art and literature.
10. Smith is considered one of the most important contemporary British writers today.

Do you have to read Ali Smith in order?

Smith’s seasonal quartet need not be read in order , but it’s increasingly clear that she is crescendoing — that to experience the books backward would be to read them against the way the world spins, against the way we, and she, are hurtling toward something horrific.

Which Ali Smith book is best?

BookGoodreadsOveral Rank
Winter| 1| 1
Other Stories and Other Stories| 2| 2
Free Love and Other Stories| 4| 3
Artful| 3| 4

Who is Ali Smith married to?

Smith lives in Cambridge with her partner, filmmaker Sarah Wood.

What genre is Ali Smith?

ALI SMITH is the author of many works of fiction , including, most recently, Summer, Spring, Winter, Autumn, Public library and other stories, and How to be both, which won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Costa Novel of the Year Award.

What disability does Ali Smith have?

She has multiple sclerosis. She won the bronze medal in the 400m T38 event of the 2021 World Para Athletics European Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland.