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Zadie Smith

English novelist, essayist and short story writer · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1975 · age 51

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 SciencesAward2022Bodley MedalAward2018Austrian State Prize for European LiteratureAwardNational Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismAward2017Langston Hughes MedalAward2006Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardsAwardBollinger Everyman Wodehouse PrizeAwardSomerset Maugham AwardAwardWomen's Prize for FictionAward2002Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward2000Costa Book AwardsAwardGuardian First Book AwardAwardJames Tait Black Memorial PrizeAwardWriter in ResidenceAward1975Born25 October 1975

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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences2023
Bodley Medal2022
Austrian State Prize for European Literature2018
National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism2018
Langston Hughes Medal2017
Women's Prize for Fiction2006
Somerset Maugham Award2006
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize2006
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards2006
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature2002
James Tait Black Memorial Prize2000
Writer in Residence2000
Costa Book Awards2000
Guardian First Book Award2000

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United Kingdom
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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Born 1975 · age 51

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