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Ali Smith
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Ali Smith is a male artist from the United States whose work period began in 1986. He is associated with acoustic rock, american, folk rock, indie, and indie folk genres. His birth year is recorded as 1962, with specific dates listed as January 1, 1962, and August 24, 1962.
Smith has authored thirty works, including *Furies*, *סתיו*, *Like*, *How to Be Both*, and *Spring*. Crossref data indicates five works, while Last.fm records 253 listeners and 1,045 plays for an artist of the same name. The subject is referenced by 294 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1962-08-24 ) 24 August 1962 (age 63) , Inverness , Scotland
- Occupation
- Author, playwright, academic, journalist
- Alma mater
- University of Aberdeen , Newnham College, Cambridge
- Period
- 1986–present
- Partner
- Sarah Wood
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ali
- Family name
- Smith
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Inverness
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- University of Strathclyde
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- AliSmith2011.png
- Work location
- Cambridge
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- date of birth
- 1962-08-24
- member of
- Royal Society of Literature
- name in native language
- Ali Smith
- start of work period
- 1986-00-00
- sexual orientation
- non-heterosexuality
- writing language
- English language
- nominated for
- Booker Prize
- Commons category
- Ali Smith
- influenced by
- James Kelman
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Encyclopedic overview
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."
Early life and education
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