WRITER

Ali Smith

1962 - Today

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Ali Smith CBE FRSL (born 24 August 1962) is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ali Smith has received more than 656,662 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Ali Smith is the 5,382nd most popular writer (up from 5,436th in 2019), the 4,083rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,469th in 2019) and the 454th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 660k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Business law and the regulation of business
Commercial law, Trade regulation, Civil Procedure
1984
Lotus 1-2-3 QUICK
1-2-3 for Windows, Business, Computer programs
1986
Business law
Commercial law, Vennootschapsrecht, Handelsrecht
1958
Girl Meets Boy
Fiction, Literature
Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and political, Girl meets boy is a myth of metamorphosis for the modern world.
2007
Electronic spreadsheet applications for accounting principles
Accounting, Computer programs, Data processing
1986
Accidental
literary fiction, Literature, Summer resorts
Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, "The Accidental" is the virtuoso new novel by the singularly gifted Ali Smith. Jonathan Safran Foer has called her writing "thrilling." Jeanette Winterson has praised her for her "style, ideas, and punch." Here, in a novel at once profound, playful, and exhilaratingly inventive, she transfixes us with a portrait of a family unraveled by a mysterious visitor. Amber--thirtysomething and barefoot--shows up at the door of the Norfolk cottage that the Smarts are renting for the summer. She talks her way in. She tells nothing but lies. She stays for dinner. Eve Smart, the author of a best-selling series of biographical reconstructions, thinks Amber is a student with whom her husband, Michael, is sleeping. Michael, an English professor, knows only that her car broke down. Daughter Astrid, age twelve, thinks she's her mother's friend. Son Magnus, age seventeen, thinks she's an angel. As Amber insinuates herself into the family, the questions of who she is and how she's come to be there drop away. Instead, dazzled by her seeming exoticism, the Smarts begin to examine the accidents of their lives through the searing lens of Amber's perceptions. When Eve finally banishes her from the cottage, Amber disappears from their sight, but not--they discover when they return home to London--from their profoundly altered lives. Fearlessly intelligent and written with an irresistible blend of lyricism and whimsy, "The Accidental" is a tour de force of literary improvisation that explores the nature of truth, the role of chance, and the transformative power of storytelling.
2005

Page views of Ali Smiths by language

Over the past year Ali Smith has had the most page views in the with 60,485 views, followed by Spanish (6,471), and German (4,657). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ukrainian (442.96%), Finnish (111.29%), and Southern Azerbaijani (67.03%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ali Smith ranks 5,382 out of 7,302. Before her are Trudi Canavan, Ludwig Ganghofer, Anatole Le Braz, Yehoshua Kenaz, Marieluise Fleißer, and Jan Twardowski. After her are Jeanne Dumée, Tommaso Grossi, Richard Llewellyn, Sony Lab'ou Tansi, Kim Newman, and Catharine Trotter Cockburn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Ali Smith ranks 307. Before her are Thae Yong-ho, Jorge Martínez, Vivian Campbell, Danny Faure, Carlos Bernard, and Isabelle Nanty. After her are Oceano Cruz, Lee Arenberg, Adam Silver, Nasko Sirakov, Jeff Garlin, and Aya Kitō.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ali Smith ranks 4,083 out of 8,785. Before her are Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800), Richard Lynn (1930), Frank Morley (1860), Vivian Campbell (1962), Tina Charles (1954), and Pybba of Mercia (570). After her are Dan Stevens (1982), Peter Firth (1953), William Henry Smyth (1788), Tony Jay (1933), Richard Llewellyn (1906), and John Martyn (1948).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Ali Smith ranks 454. Before her are Charles Wilkins (1749), Benjamin Zephaniah (1958), Charles Montagu Doughty (1843), Daniel Tammet (1979), Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696), and Aneirin (525). After her are Richard Llewellyn (1906), Kim Newman (1959), Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1674), Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868), William Harrison Ainsworth (1805), and Olivia Manning (1908).

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