Ali Smith (born 1962 in Inverness) is a Scottish writer.

Ali Smith talks about the power of puns and explains the spaces in between the words of her latest novel, There But for the.

Ali Smith), screened at the Cambridge International Film Festival, 2004.

I'd go so far as to say that reading almost anything by Ali Smith is enormously pleasurable.

Ali Smith, There but for the.

Ali Smith, the accidental Shortlist:

The winner took many by surprise; Ali Smith had been expected to win for her novel "The Accidental."

Ali Smith includes several quotes and short poems at the start of the book.

Ali Smith, perceptively, noted that 'at the heart of The Lovely Bones is an unwritten book about loneliness'.

Ali Smith goes for Tove Jansson's The Summer Book ("a piece of light: what better to keep you warm through the darker months?")