British novelist, essayist, and short-story writer (born 1975)
Zadie Smith
FRSL
Smith announcing the 2010 National Book Critics Circle award finalists in fiction
Born
Sadie Smith (1975-10-27) 27 October 1975 (age 48) London, England
Occupation
Novelist
professor
Education
King's College, Cambridge (BA)
Period
2000–present
Literary movement
Realism
postmodernism
hysterical realism
New Sincerity
Notable works
White Teeth On Beauty NW Swing Time
Spouse
Nick Laird
(m. 2004)
Children
2
Relatives
Doc Brown (brother)
Zadie Smith's voice
Recorded September 2013 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs
Website
Official website
Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English[1] novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.[2]
^"Perhaps Soon Zadie Smith Will Know What She's Doing (and then Just You Watch Out) by Dave". www.powells.com. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
^"Zadie Smith to Join NYU Creative Writing Faculty", NYU, 25 June 2009.
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