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About Ali Smith
Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist
Ali Smith is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. She is known for fiction and for work that moves across genres, with writing that often engages with social and political questions. Sebastian Barry described her in 2016 as “Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting.” Her novels Gliff and Glyph, released in successive years, are linked by their shared sound and by their focus on contemporary dilemmas and political concerns.
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Books by Ali Smith
The Accidental
2005
Girl Meets Boy
2007
Autumn
1988
Winter
2018
There but for the
2011