Zadie Smith was born in north–west London in 1975, and still lives in the area. She is the author of White Teeth and The Autograph Man. The numerous awards for White Teeth include the 2000 Whitbread First Novel Award, the 2001 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Overall Winner and Best First Book), and the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction (shortlisted). Awards for The Autograph Man include the 2003 Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for Fiction, the 2003 Orange Prize for Fiction (shortlisted), and the 2003 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award (shortlisted).
Praise For Zadie Smith
“Like Forster, Smith possesses a captivating authorial voice, giving us that rare thing: a novel that is as affecting as it is entertaining, as provocative as it is humane.”
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“As anyone who has read Zadie Smith’s first two novels, White Teeth and The Autograph Man, will know, she possesses the deftest of animating touches and has a wonderful ear for nuance ... She can also orchestrate a scene brilliantly: its moments of friction; its contemplative drifts; its sudden changes of mood.”
—John Preston, The Telegraph |
