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Zadie Smith

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English novelist, essayist and short story writer (born 1975)

United KingdomWritersBorn 1975 · age 50
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Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth, published in 2000, was an immediate best-seller and won a number of awards. Smith became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.

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2023Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2022Bodley Medal
2018Austrian State Prize for European Literature
2018National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
2017Langston Hughes Medal
2006Women's Prize for Fiction
2006Somerset Maugham Award
2006Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
2006Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
2002Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
2000James Tait Black Memorial Prize
2000writer in residence
2000Costa Book Awards
2000Guardian First Book Award

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Archie PanjabiAlso in White Teeth (2002)Rosalind EleazarAlso in NW (2016)Charlie Creed-MilesAlso in White Teeth (2002)Naomie HarrisAlso in White Teeth (2002)Phoebe FoxAlso in NW (2016)Geraldine JamesAlso in White Teeth (2002)

About this person

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1975 · age 50
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32 languages

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