Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. She is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as The Embassy of Cambodia and the essay collection, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has twice been listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists. She has won the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award among many others, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
Awards: Women's Prize (2006), SoA (2001), Whitbread (2000), James Tait Black (2000) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical, Children's Fiction
Novels
White Teeth (1999)
The Autograph Man (2002)
On Beauty (2005)
NW (2012)
Swing Time (2016)
The Fraud (2023)
The Autograph Man (2002)
On Beauty (2005)
NW (2012)
Swing Time (2016)
The Fraud (2023)
Collections
Novellas and Short Stories
Anthologies edited
Piece of Flesh (1999)
The Burned Children of America (2003) (with Marco Cassini and Martina Testa)
The Book of Other People (2007)
The Burned Children of America (2003) (with Marco Cassini and Martina Testa)
The Book of Other People (2007)
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Books containing stories by Zadie Smith
New Daughters of Africa (2019)
An International Anthology of Writing By Women of African Descent
edited by
Margaret Busby
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014 (2014)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Daniel Handler
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Zadie Smith recommends
Banal Nightmare (2024)
Halle Butler
"Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare will end summer with a bang. It's about turning thirty-seven and realizing you hate everybody you know. It's also about trying to become an adult while living in - and through - this unregulated, neoliberal, late-capitalist version of the internet with which we are presently saddled. . . . So funny, so smart, utterly vicious - just brilliant."
After the Funeral (2023)
Tessa Hadley
"I find Tessa Hadley's work genuinely helpful, especially when it comes to the big subjects: love and marriage, the political versus the personal, children, friendship. And then there are the sentences themselves, so precise and beautiful, often sly, sometimes devastating, always expertly paced. Few writers give me such consistent pleasure."
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? (2021)
Jesse McCarthy
"This is a very smart and soulful book. Jesse McCarthy is a terrific essayist."
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