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href="#Critical_studies_and_reviews_of_Smith's_work"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.7</span> <span>Critical studies and reviews of Smith's work</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Critical_studies_and_reviews_of_Smith's_work-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Awards_and_recognition" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Awards_and_recognition"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Awards and recognition</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Awards_and_recognition-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li 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href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadi_Smit" title="Zadi Smit – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Zadi Smit" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA" title="زادی اسمیت – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="زادی اسمیت" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B8_%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82" title="Зейди Смит – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Зейди Смит" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smithov%C3%A1" title="Zadie Smithová – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Zadie Smithová" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%96%CE%AD%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B9_%CE%A3%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%B8" title="Ζέιντι Σμιθ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ζέιντι Σμιθ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA" title="زادی اسمیت – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="زادی اسمیت" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%9C%EC%9D%B4%EB%94%94_%EC%8A%A4%EB%AF%B8%EC%8A%A4" title="제이디 스미스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="제이디 스미스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B6%D5%A1%D5%A4%D5%AB_%D5%8D%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%A9" title="Զադի Սմիթ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Զադի Սմիթ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BC%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A5" title="ज़ैडी स्मिथ – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="ज़ैडी स्मिथ" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%96%D7%99%D7%99%D7%93%D7%99_%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA%27" title="זיידי סמית' – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="זיידי סמית'" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%96%E1%83%94%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%98_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%97%E1%83%98" title="ზეიდი სმითი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ზეიდი სმითი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB" title="زادى سميث – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="زادى سميث" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9" title="ゼイディー・スミス – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ゼイディー・スミス" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BC%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%A1%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%A5" title="ਜ਼ੇਡੀ ਸਮਿਥ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਜ਼ੇਡੀ ਸਮਿਥ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Zadie Smith" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Zadie Smith</div><br /><div class="honorific-suffix" style="display:inline;font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">FRSL</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Zadie_Smith_NBCC_2011_Shankbone.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Smith announcing the 2010 National Book Critics Circle award finalists in fiction"><img alt="Smith announcing the 2010 National Book Critics Circle award finalists in fiction" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Zadie_Smith_NBCC_2011_Shankbone.jpg/220px-Zadie_Smith_NBCC_2011_Shankbone.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Zadie_Smith_NBCC_2011_Shankbone.jpg/330px-Zadie_Smith_NBCC_2011_Shankbone.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Zadie_Smith_NBCC_2011_Shankbone.jpg/440px-Zadie_Smith_NBCC_2011_Shankbone.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1822" data-file-height="2278" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.4em;">Smith announcing the 2010 <a href="/wiki/National_Book_Critics_Circle" title="National Book Critics Circle">National Book Critics Circle</a> award finalists in fiction</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Sadie Smith<br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1975-10-25</span>) </span>25 October 1975<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 49)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output 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class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/King%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="King's College, Cambridge">King's College, Cambridge</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Period</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">2000–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Literary movement</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Realism_(arts)" title="Realism (arts)">Realism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postmodernism" title="Postmodernism">postmodernism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hysterical_realism" title="Hysterical realism">hysterical realism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Sincerity" class="mw-redirect" title="New Sincerity">New Sincerity</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><i><a href="/wiki/White_Teeth" title="White Teeth">White Teeth</a></i> (2000)<br /><i><a href="/wiki/On_Beauty" title="On Beauty">On Beauty</a></i> (2005)<br /><i><a href="/wiki/NW_(novel)" title="NW (novel)">NW</a></i> (2012)<br /><i><a href="/wiki/Swing_Time_(2016_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Swing Time (2016 novel)">Swing Time</a></i> (2016)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output 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class="side-box-text plainlist"><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Zadie_Smith_BBC_Radio4_Desert_Island_Discs_27_September_2013_b03bg4v7.flac" title="File:Zadie Smith BBC Radio4 Desert Island Discs 27 September 2013 b03bg4v7.flac"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Zadie Smith's voice</div></a></div> <div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="215" style="width:215px;" data-durationhint="30" data-mwtitle="Zadie_Smith_BBC_Radio4_Desert_Island_Discs_27_September_2013_b03bg4v7.flac" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/31/Zadie_Smith_BBC_Radio4_Desert_Island_Discs_27_September_2013_b03bg4v7.flac/Zadie_Smith_BBC_Radio4_Desert_Island_Discs_27_September_2013_b03bg4v7.flac.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-transcodekey="ogg" data-width="0" 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Discs</a></i></div></div></div></div></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.zadiesmith.com">www<wbr />.zadiesmith<wbr />.com</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140052#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" 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Her <a href="/wiki/Debut_novel" title="Debut novel">debut novel</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/White_Teeth" title="White Teeth">White Teeth</a></i> (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a> in September 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadie_Smith&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Zadie Smith was born on 25 October 1975<sup id="cite_ref-edemariam_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-edemariam-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Willesden" title="Willesden">Willesden</a><sup id="cite_ref-cbb_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbb-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to a <a href="/wiki/Afro-Jamaicans" title="Afro-Jamaicans">Jamaican</a> mother, Yvonne Bailey, and an English father, Harvey Smith,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who was 30 years his wife's senior.<sup id="cite_ref-barton_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-barton-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the age of 14, she changed her name from Sadie to Zadie.<sup id="cite_ref-return_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-return-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smith's mother grew up in <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a> and emigrated to England in 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-edemariam_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-edemariam-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Smith's parents divorced when she was a teenager. She has a half-sister, a half-brother, and two younger brothers (one is the rapper and stand-up comedian <a href="/wiki/Doc_Brown_(rapper)" title="Doc Brown (rapper)">Doc Brown</a>, and the other is the rapper <a href="/w/index.php?title=Luc_Skyz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Luc Skyz (page does not exist)">Luc Skyz</a>). As a child, Smith was fond of tap dancing,<sup id="cite_ref-edemariam_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-edemariam-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in her teenage years, she considered a career in musical theatre. While at university, Smith earned money as a jazz singer,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and wanted to become a journalist.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smith attended the local public schools, Malorees Junior School and <a href="/wiki/Hampstead_School" title="Hampstead School">Hampstead Comprehensive School</a>, then <a href="/wiki/King%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="King's College, Cambridge">King's College, Cambridge</a>, where she studied <a href="/wiki/English_literature" title="English literature">English literature</a>. In an interview with <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> in 2000, Smith corrected a newspaper assertion that she left Cambridge with a <a href="/wiki/Double_first" class="mw-redirect" title="Double first">double First</a>. "Actually, I got a Third in my Part Ones," she said.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She graduated with upper second-class honours.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While at university Smith auditioned unsuccessfully for the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Footlights" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambridge Footlights">Cambridge Footlights</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At Cambridge, Smith published a number of short stories in a collection of new student writing called <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mays_Anthology" class="mw-redirect" title="The Mays Anthology">The Mays Anthology</a></i>. They attracted the attention of a publisher, who offered her a contract for her first novel. She decided to contact a <a href="/wiki/Literary_agent" title="Literary agent">literary agent</a> and was taken on by A. P. Watt.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Smith returned to guest-edit the anthology in 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadie_Smith&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Smith's debut novel, <i><a href="/wiki/White_Teeth" title="White Teeth">White Teeth</a></i>, was introduced to the publishing world in 1997 before it was completed. On the basis of a partial manuscript, an auction for the rights began, which was won by <a href="/wiki/Hamish_Hamilton" title="Hamish Hamilton">Hamish Hamilton</a>. Smith completed <i>White Teeth</i> during her final year at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a>. Published in 2000, the novel immediately became a best-seller and received much acclaim. It was praised internationally and won a number of awards, among them the <a href="/wiki/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize" title="James Tait Black Memorial Prize">James Tait Black Memorial Prize</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Betty_Trask_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Betty Trask Award">Betty Trask Award</a>. The novel was adapted for television in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-edemariam_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-edemariam-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2000, Smith's debut work was discussed in a controversial essay of literary criticism by <a href="/wiki/James_Wood_(critic)" title="James Wood (critic)">James Wood</a> entitled "Human, All Too Inhuman", where Wood critiques the novel as part of a contemporary genre of <a href="/wiki/Hysterical_realism" title="Hysterical realism">hysterical realism</a> where <span style="padding-right:.15em;">"</span>'[i]nformation has become the new character" and human feeling is absent from contemporary fiction.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an article for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> in October 2001, Smith responded to the criticism by agreeing with the accuracy of the term and with Wood's underlying argument that "any novel that aims at hysteria will now be effortlessly outstripped".<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, she rejected her debut being categorised alongside major authors such as <a href="/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace" title="David Foster Wallace">David Foster Wallace</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salman_Rushdie" title="Salman Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Don_DeLillo" title="Don DeLillo">Don DeLillo</a>, and the dismissal of their own innovations on the basis of being "hysterical realism".<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Responding earnestly to Wood's concerns about contemporary literature and culture, Smith described her own anxieties as a writer and argued that fiction should be "not a division of head and heart, but the useful employment of both".<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smith served as writer-in-residence at the <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Contemporary_Arts" title="Institute of Contemporary Arts">Institute of Contemporary Arts</a> (ICA) in London and subsequently published, as editor, an anthology of sex writing, <i>Piece of Flesh</i>, as the culmination of this role. </p><p>Smith's second novel, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Autograph_Man" title="The Autograph Man">The Autograph Man</a></i>, was published in 2002 and was a commercial success, although it was not as well received by critics as <i>White Teeth</i>. </p><p>After the publication of <i>The Autograph Man</i>, Smith visited the United States as a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Radcliffe_Institute" title="Harvard Radcliffe Institute">Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study</a> at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She started work on a still-unreleased book of essays, <i>The Morality of the Novel</i> (a.k.a. <i>Fail Better</i>), in which she considers a selection of 20th-century writers through the lens of <a href="/wiki/Moral_philosophy" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral philosophy">moral philosophy</a>. Some portions of this book presumably appear in the essay collection <i>Changing My Mind</i>, published in November 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smith's third novel, <i><a href="/wiki/On_Beauty" title="On Beauty">On Beauty</a></i>, was published in September 2005. It is set largely in and around Greater <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>. It attracted more acclaim than <i>The Autograph Man</i>: it was shortlisted for the <a href="/wiki/Man_Booker_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Man Booker Prize">Man Booker Prize</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and won the 2006 <a href="/wiki/Baileys_Women%27s_Prize_for_Fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction">Orange Prize for Fiction</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Anisfield-Wolf_Book_Award" title="Anisfield-Wolf Book Award">Anisfield-Wolf Book Award</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-anisfield-wolf_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-anisfield-wolf-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later in the same year, Smith published <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Martha_and_Hanwell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Martha and Hanwell (page does not exist)">Martha and Hanwell</a></i>, a book that pairs two short stories about two troubled characters, originally published in <i><a href="/wiki/Granta" title="Granta">Granta</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i> respectively. <a href="/wiki/Penguin_Books" title="Penguin Books">Penguin</a> published <i>Martha and Hanwell</i> with a new introduction by the author as part of their pocket series to celebrate their 70th birthday.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first story, "Martha, Martha", deals with Smith's familiar themes of race and postcolonial identity, while "Hanwell in Hell" is about a man struggling to cope with the death of his wife.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2008 she guest-edited the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Today_(BBC_Radio_4)" title="Today (BBC Radio 4)">Today</a></i> programme.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After teaching fiction at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University_School_of_the_Arts" title="Columbia University School of the Arts">Columbia University School of the Arts</a>, Smith joined <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a> as a tenured professor of fiction in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between March and October 2011, Smith was the monthly New Books reviewer for <i><a href="/wiki/Harper%27s_Magazine" title="Harper's Magazine">Harper's Magazine</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She is also a frequent contributor to <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Review_of_Books" title="The New York Review of Books">The New York Review of Books</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2010, <i>The Guardian</i> newspaper asked Smith for her "10 rules for writing fiction". Among them she declared: "Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied."<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smith's novel <i><a href="/wiki/NW_(novel)" title="NW (novel)">NW</a></i> was published in 2012. Set in the <a href="/wiki/Kilburn,_London" title="Kilburn, London">Kilburn</a> area of north-west London, the title being a reference to the <a href="/wiki/NW_postcode_area" title="NW postcode area">local postcode, NW6</a>, the novel was shortlisted for the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">Royal Society of Literature</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Ondaatje_Prize" title="Ondaatje Prize">Ondaatje Prize</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Prize_for_Fiction" title="Women's Prize for Fiction">Women's Prize for Fiction</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>NW</i> was made into a BBC television film with the same title, directed by <a href="/wiki/Saul_Dibb" title="Saul Dibb">Saul Dibb</a> and adapted by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rachel_Bennette&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rachel Bennette (page does not exist)">Rachel Bennette</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Starring <a href="/wiki/Nikki_Amuka-Bird" title="Nikki Amuka-Bird">Nikki Amuka-Bird</a> and <a href="/wiki/Phoebe_Fox" title="Phoebe Fox">Phoebe Fox</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the TV adaptation was broadcast on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Two" title="BBC Two">BBC Two</a> on 14 November 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2013, Smith appeared on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Desert_Island_Discs" title="Desert Island Discs">Desert Island Discs</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with her book choice being <a href="/wiki/Marcel_Proust" title="Marcel Proust">Marcel Proust</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/%C3%80_la_recherche_du_temps_perdu" class="mw-redirect" title="À la recherche du temps perdu">À la recherche du temps perdu</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, it was announced that Smith, along with her husband <a href="/wiki/Nick_Laird" title="Nick Laird">Nick Laird</a>, was writing the screenplay for a science fiction movie to be directed by French filmmaker <a href="/wiki/Claire_Denis" title="Claire Denis">Claire Denis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Smith later said that her involvement in the film, titled <i><a href="/wiki/High_Life_(2018_film)" title="High Life (2018 film)">High Life</a></i>, had been overstated and that she had simply helped to polish the English dialogue for the film.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smith's fifth novel, <i><a href="/wiki/Swing_Time_(2016_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Swing Time (2016 novel)">Swing Time</a></i>, was published in November 2016. It drew inspiration from Smith's childhood love of tap dancing.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was longlisted for the <a href="/wiki/Man_Booker_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Man Booker Prize">Man Booker Prize</a> 2017. </p><p>Smith is a contributor to <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Busby" title="Margaret Busby">Margaret Busby</a>'s 2019 anthology <i><a href="/wiki/Daughters_of_Africa#New_Daughters_of_Africa" title="Daughters of Africa">New Daughters of Africa</a></i> (as is her mother Yvonne Bailey-Smith).<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smith's first collection of short stories, <i><a href="/wiki/Grand_Union_(short_story_collection)" title="Grand Union (short story collection)">Grand Union</a></i>, was published on 8 October 2019. In 2020 she published six essays in a collection entitled <i><a href="/wiki/Intimations" title="Intimations">Intimations</a></i>, the royalties from which she said she would be donating to the <a href="/wiki/Equal_Justice_Initiative" title="Equal Justice Initiative">Equal Justice Initiative</a> and New York’s <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> emergency relief fund.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2021, Smith debuted her first play, <i>The Wife of Willesden</i>, which she wrote after learning that her borough in London, Brent, had been selected in 2018 as the 2020 London Borough of Culture. As the most famous current writer from Brent, Smith was the natural choice to author the piece. She chose to adapt "<a href="/wiki/The_Wife_of_Bath%27s_Tale" title="The Wife of Bath's Tale">The Wife of Bath's Tale</a>" in <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer" title="Geoffrey Chaucer">Geoffrey Chaucer</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Canterbury_Tales" class="mw-redirect" title="Canterbury Tales">Canterbury Tales</a></i>, recalling how she had translated Chaucer into contemporary English during her studies at Cambridge.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The retelling replaces the pilgrimage with a pub crawl set in contemporary London, with the Wife of Bath becoming Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman in her mid-50s who challenges her Auntie P's traditional Christian views on sex and marriage. Like the original tale, Alvita is a woman who has had five husbands, her experiences with them ranging from pleasant to traumatic. The majority of the piece is spent on her talking to the people in the pub, in much the way that the Wife of Bath's prologue is longer than the tale itself. To her, Alvita's voice is a common one that she heard growing up in Brent, and thus writing this play was a natural choice for the festival. The tale itself is set in 17th-century Jamaica, where a man guilty of rape is brought before the Queen, who decrees that his punishment is to go and find what women truly desire.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2023, Smith stated that she had been writing on a historical novel since 2020, focusing on Arthur Orton, who was at the centre of the <a href="/wiki/Tichborne_case" title="Tichborne case">Tichborne case</a>, a famous 19th-century court case involving identity theft. She said that she tried to avoid Charles Dickens as an influence and subject, but that her research process showed her that there was "really no way to entirely avoid Mr. Charles Dickens" since several of the places and events of her story had a relation to him.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book also includes another real-life novelist of the time, William Ainsworth. Smith's historical novel, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fraud" title="The Fraud">The Fraud</a></i>, was published in September 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reviewing it for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i>, Martin Chilton said: "The novel pulls off the trick of being both splendidly modern and authentically old. ... <i>The Fraud</i> is the genuine article."<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Karan_Mahajan" title="Karan Mahajan">Karan Mahajan</a>, writing in <i>The New York Times</i>, "It offers a vast, acute panoply of London and the English countryside, and successfully locates the social controversies of an era in a handful of characters. ... Dickens may be dead, but Smith, thankfully, is alive."<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2023, Smith was elected to the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_%26_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="American Academy of Arts & Sciences">American Academy of Arts & Sciences</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadie_Smith&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Smith met <a href="/wiki/Nick_Laird" title="Nick Laird">Nick Laird</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a>. They married in 2004 in <a href="/wiki/King%27s_College_Chapel,_Cambridge" title="King's College Chapel, Cambridge">King's College Chapel, Cambridge</a>. Smith dedicated <i><a href="/wiki/On_Beauty" title="On Beauty">On Beauty</a></i> to "my dear Laird". She also uses his name in passing in <i>White Teeth</i>: "An' all the good-lookin' men, all the <i>rides</i> like your man Nicky Laird, they're all dead."<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The couple lived in <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>, Italy, from November 2006 to 2007, and lived in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, USA and <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Park,_London" title="Queen's Park, London">Queen's Park</a>, London,<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for about 10 years before relocating to <a href="/wiki/Kilburn,_London" title="Kilburn, London">Kilburn</a>, London, in 2020. They have two children.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smith describes herself as "unreligious",<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was not raised in a religion, although retains a "curiosity" about the role religion plays in others' lives.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an essay exploring <a href="/wiki/Secular_humanist" class="mw-redirect" title="Secular humanist">humanist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Existentialism" title="Existentialism">existentialist</a> views of death and dying, Smith characterises her <a href="/wiki/Worldview" title="Worldview">worldview</a> as that of a "sentimental <a href="/wiki/Secular_humanism" title="Secular humanism">humanist</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Zadie Smith's favourite book is <i><a href="/wiki/Middlemarch" title="Middlemarch">Middlemarch</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/George_Eliot" title="George Eliot">George Eliot</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She tells Eleanor Wachtel, in an interview for <i>Brick, A Literary Journal</i>, that <i>Middlemarch</i> was "just an extraordinary achievement in a novel. It's so diverse and gigantic—its concentration is so diffuse. It's a social novel, which England has always aspired to; at the same time, it's a great philosophical novel, like its continental cousins."<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadie_Smith&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadie_Smith&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/White_Teeth" title="White Teeth">White Teeth</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Autograph_Man" title="The Autograph Man">The Autograph Man</a></i> (2002)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/On_Beauty" title="On Beauty">On Beauty</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/NW_(novel)" title="NW (novel)">NW</a></i> (2012)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Swing_Time_(2016_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Swing Time (2016 novel)">Swing Time</a></i> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fraud" title="The Fraud">The Fraud</a></i> (2023)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Plays">Plays</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadie_Smith&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Plays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wife_of_Willesden" title="The Wife of Willesden">The Wife of Willesden</a></i> (2021)<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Short_fiction">Short fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadie_Smith&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Short fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Collections</dt></dl> <ul><li><i>Martha and Hanwell</i> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Grand_Union_(short_story_collection)" title="Grand Union (short story collection)">Grand Union: Stories</a></i> (2019)</li></ul> <dl><dt>Stories<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dt></dl> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th width="20%">Title </th> <th>Year </th> <th>First published </th> <th>Reprinted/collected </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td data-sort-value="waiter's wife">"The Waiter's Wife" </td> <td>1999 </td> <td><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px 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.cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation journal cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://granta.com/the-waiters-wife/">"The Waiter's Wife"</a>. <i>Granta</i>. <b>67</b>. December 1999.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Granta&rft.atitle=The+Waiter%27s+Wife&rft.volume=67&rft.date=1999-12&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fgranta.com%2Fthe-waiters-wife%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td data-sort-value="girl with bangs">"The Girl with Bangs" </td> <td>2001 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Martha, Martha" </td> <td>2003 </td> <td> </td> <td><i>Martha and Hanwell</i> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Envy" </td> <td>2004 </td> <td>Programme book for the <a href="/wiki/Opera_North" title="Opera North">Opera North</a> Spring Season 2004 "Eight Little Greats". </td> <td> </td> <td>Published as one of seven short contributions on the theme of "<a href="/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins" title="Seven deadly sins">Seven Sins</a>" </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Hanwell in Hell" </td> <td>2004 </td> <td> </td> <td><i>Martha and Hanwell</i> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Hanwell Senior" </td> <td>2007 </td> <td><i>The New Yorker</i>, 14 May 2007 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Permission to Enter" </td> <td>2012 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/07/30/permission-to-enter">"Permission to Enter"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i>. 23 July 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=Permission+to+Enter&rft.date=2012-07-23&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2012%2F07%2F30%2Fpermission-to-enter&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td data-sort-value="embassy of cambodia"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Embassy_of_Cambodia" title="The Embassy of Cambodia">The Embassy of Cambodia</a></i> </td> <td>2013 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2013/02/11/130211fi_fiction_smith">"The Embassy of Cambodia"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i>. Vol. 89, no. 1. 11–18 February 2013. pp. 88–98.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=The+Embassy+of+Cambodia&rft.volume=89&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=88-98&rft.date=2013-02-11%2F2013-02-18&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Ffiction%2Ffeatures%2F2013%2F02%2F11%2F130211fi_fiction_smith&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Meet the President!" </td> <td>2013 </td> <td><i>The New Yorker</i>, 5 August 2013 </td> <td><i>Grand Union: Stories</i> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Moonlit Landscape with Bridge" </td> <td>2014 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/02/10/moonlit-landscape-with-bridge">"Moonlit Landscape with Bridge"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i>. Vol. 89, no. 48. 10 February 2014. pp. 64–71.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=Moonlit+Landscape+with+Bridge&rft.volume=89&rft.issue=48&rft.pages=64-71&rft.date=2014-02-10&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2014%2F02%2F10%2Fmoonlit-landscape-with-bridge&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Big Week" </td> <td>2014 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/6315/big-week-zadie-smith">"Big Week"</a>. <i>The Paris Review</i>. Vol. Summer 2014, no. 209. 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Paris+Review&rft.atitle=Big+Week&rft.volume=Summer+2014&rft.issue=209&rft.date=2014&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theparisreview.org%2Ffiction%2F6315%2Fbig-week-zadie-smith&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Escape from New York" </td> <td>2015 </td> <td><i>The New Yorker</i>, 1 June 2015 </td> <td><i>Grand Union: Stories</i> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Two Men Arrive in a Village" </td> <td>2016 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/06/two-men-arrive-in-a-village-by-zadie-smith">"Two Men Arrive in a Village"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i>. 6–13 June 2016.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=Two+Men+Arrive+in+a+Village&rft.date=2016-06-06%2F2016-06-13&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2016%2F06%2F06%2Ftwo-men-arrive-in-a-village-by-zadie-smith&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span> </td> <td><i>Grand Union: Stories</i> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Crazy They Call Me" </td> <td>2017 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/crazy-they-call-me">"Crazy they Call Me"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i>. 26 February 2017.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=Crazy+they+Call+Me&rft.date=2017-02-26&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2017%2F03%2F06%2Fcrazy-they-call-me&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"The Lazy River" </td> <td>2017 </td> <td><i>The New Yorker</i>, 11 December 2017 </td> <td><i>Grand Union: Stories</i> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Now More Than Ever" </td> <td>2018 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/23/now-more-than-ever">"Now More Than Ever"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i>. 23 July 2018.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=Now+More+Than+Ever&rft.date=2018-07-23&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2018%2F07%2F23%2Fnow-more-than-ever&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span> </td> <td><i>Grand Union: Stories</i> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Weirdo" </td> <td>2021 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>Written with Nick Laird, illustrated by Magenta Fox </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-fiction">Non-fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadie_Smith&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Non-fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Changing_My_Mind:_Occasional_Essays" title="Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays">Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i>Stop What You're Doing and Read This!</i> (2011) (with <a href="/wiki/Carmen_Callil" title="Carmen Callil">Carmen Callil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Haddon" title="Mark Haddon">Mark Haddon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Rosen" title="Michael Rosen">Michael Rosen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jeanette_Winterson" title="Jeanette Winterson">Jeanette Winterson</a>)</li> <li>* <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guernicamag.com/features/smith_01_15_12/">"Mind the Gap"</a> in <i>Guernica Magazine</i>, January 2012.</li> <li>"Some Notes on Attunement: A voyage around <a href="/wiki/Joni_Mitchell" title="Joni Mitchell">Joni Mitchell</a>", <i>The New Yorker</i>, 17 December 2012, and later featured in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Best_American_Essays" title="The Best American Essays">The Best American Essays</a></i> (2013)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/11/04/take-it-or-leave-it-2">"Take it or leave it"</a>. Take Out. <i>The New Yorker</i>. Vol. 89, no. 35. 4 November 2013. p. 86.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=Take+it+or+leave+it&rft.volume=89&rft.issue=35&rft.pages=86&rft.date=2013-11-04&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2013%2F11%2F04%2Ftake-it-or-leave-it-2&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/12/22/on-optimism-and-despair/">"On optimism and despair"</a>, <i>The New York Review of Books</i>, 22 December 2016; speech given on accepting the <a href="/wiki/Welt-Literaturpreis" class="mw-redirect" title="Welt-Literaturpreis">Welt-Literaturpreis</a></li> <li><i>Fences: A Brexit Diary</i> (2016)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/19/lynette-yiadom-boakyes-imaginary-portraits">"A bird of few words : narrative mysteries in the paintings of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye"</a>. Onward and Upward with the Arts. <i>The New Yorker</i>. Vol. 93, no. 17. 19 June 2017. pp. 48–53.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=A+bird+of+few+words+%3A+narrative+mysteries+in+the+paintings+of+Lynette+Yiadom-Boakye&rft.volume=93&rft.issue=17&rft.pages=48-53&rft.date=2017-06-19&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2017%2F06%2F19%2Flynette-yiadom-boakyes-imaginary-portraits&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Feel_Free_(Smith_book)" title="Feel Free (Smith book)">Feel Free: Essays</a></i> (2018)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/darryl-pinckneys-intimate-study-of-black-history">"Darryl Pinckney's Intimate Study of Black History"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i>. 26 November 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=Darryl+Pinckney%27s+Intimate+Study+of+Black+History&rft.date=2019-11-26&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fbooks%2Fpage-turner%2Fdarryl-pinckneys-intimate-study-of-black-history&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span> From Introduction to <a href="/wiki/Darryl_Pinckney" title="Darryl Pinckney">Darryl Pinckney</a>, <i>Busted in New York and Other Essays</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Intimations" title="Intimations">Intimations</a></i> (2020)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/06/magazine20131104take-it-or-leave-it">"Take it or leave it"</a>. First Tastes. November 4, 2013. <i>The New Yorker</i>. Vol. 97, no. 27. 6 September 2021. p. 65.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=Take+it+or+leave+it&rft.volume=97&rft.issue=27&rft.pages=65&rft.date=2021-09-06&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2021%2F09%2F06%2Fmagazine20131104take-it-or-leave-it&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/shibboleth-the-role-of-words-in-the-campus-protests?client_service_name=the+new+yorker&client_service_id=31202&service_user_id=1.78e+16&supported_service_name=instagram_publishing&utm_medium=social&utm_social_type=owne">"Shibboleth - the role of words in the campus protests"</a>, <i>The New Yorker</i>, 5 May 2024.</li> <li><span style="padding-right:.15em;">"</span>'Here comes the sun': Zadie Smith on hope, trepidation and rebirth after 14 years of the Tories", <i>The Guardian</i>, 3 July 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Children's_books"><span id="Children.27s_books"></span>Children's books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadie_Smith&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Children's books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmithLaird2021" class="citation book cs1">Smith, Zadie; Laird, Nick (2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9n7VDwAAQBAJ"><i>Weirdo</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Penguin_Random_House" title="Penguin Random House">Puffin</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0241449608" title="Special:BookSources/978-0241449608"><bdi>978-0241449608</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Weirdo&rft.pub=Puffin&rft.date=2021&rft.isbn=978-0241449608&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=Zadie&rft.au=Laird%2C+Nick&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D9n7VDwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmithLaird2022" class="citation book cs1">Smith, Zadie; Laird, Nick (2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=HeNGEAAAQBAJ"><i>The Surprise</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Penguin_Random_House" title="Penguin Random House">Penguin Young Readers Group</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780593525975" title="Special:BookSources/9780593525975"><bdi>9780593525975</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Surprise&rft.pub=Penguin+Young+Readers+Group&rft.date=2022&rft.isbn=9780593525975&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=Zadie&rft.au=Laird%2C+Nick&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DHeNGEAAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_editor">As editor</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadie_Smith&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: As editor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Piece of Flesh</i> (2001)</li> <li><i>The Burned Children of America</i> (2003) (with <a href="/wiki/Dave_Eggers" title="Dave Eggers">Dave Eggers</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Other_People" title="The Book of Other People">The Book of Other People</a></i> (2007)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critical_studies_and_reviews_of_Smith's_work"><span id="Critical_studies_and_reviews_of_Smith.27s_work"></span>Critical studies and reviews of Smith's work</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadie_Smith&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Critical studies and reviews of Smith's work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Walters, Tracey (ed.). <i>Decoded: New Essays on Zadie Smith</i>. New York: Peter Lang, 2021.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Tew" title="Philip Tew">Tew, Philip</a> (ed.). <i>Reading Zadie Smith: The First Decade and Beyond</i>. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.</li> <li>Tew, Philip. <i>Zadie Smith</i>. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.</li> <li>Walters, Tracey (ed.). <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/70541">Zadie Smith: Critical Essays</a>.</i> New York: Peter Lang Publications, 2008.</li></ul> <dl><dt>Reviews of <i>Feel Free</i></dt></dl> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFClark2018" class="citation magazine cs1">Clark, Alex (3 February 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/03/zadie-smith-feel-free-review">"Feel Free by Zadie Smith review – wonderfully suggestive essays"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 September</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Feel+Free+by+Zadie+Smith+review+%E2%80%93+wonderfully+suggestive+essays&rft.date=2018-02-03&rft.aulast=Clark&rft.aufirst=Alex&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fbooks%2F2018%2Ffeb%2F03%2Fzadie-smith-feel-free-review&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHoby2018" class="citation magazine cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hermione_Hoby" title="Hermione Hoby">Hoby, Hermione</a> (21 February 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/147111/zadie-smiths-book-essays-explores-means-human">"Zadie Smith's book of essays explores what it means to be human : the varieties of individuality in 'Feel Free'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>The New Republic</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Republic&rft.atitle=Zadie+Smith%27s+book+of+essays+explores+what+it+means+to+be+human+%3A+the+varieties+of+individuality+in+%27Feel+Free%27&rft.date=2018-02-21&rft.aulast=Hoby&rft.aufirst=Hermione&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fnewrepublic.com%2Farticle%2F147111%2Fzadie-smiths-book-essays-explores-means-human&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <dl><dt>Reviews of <i>NW</i></dt></dl> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmallwood2012" class="citation magazine cs1">Smallwood, Christine (November 2012). "Mental weather : the many voices of Zadie Smith". Reviews. <i>Harper's Magazine</i>. Vol. 325, no. 1950. pp. 86–90.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Harper%27s+Magazine&rft.atitle=Mental+weather+%3A+the+many+voices+of+Zadie+Smith&rft.volume=325&rft.issue=1950&rft.pages=86-90&rft.date=2012-11&rft.aulast=Smallwood&rft.aufirst=Christine&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBentley2018" class="citation journal cs1">Bentley, Nick (2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/4519/1/Trailing%20Postmodernism%20English%20Studies.docx">"Trailing Postmodernism : David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Zadie Smith's NW, and the Metamodern"</a>. <i>English Studies</i>. <b>99</b> (7): 723–43. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F0013838X.2018.1510611">10.1080/0013838X.2018.1510611</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:165906081">165906081</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=English+Studies&rft.atitle=Trailing+Postmodernism+%3A+David+Mitchell%27s+Cloud+Atlas%2C+Zadie+Smith%27s+NW%2C+and+the+Metamodern&rft.volume=99&rft.issue=7&rft.pages=723-43&rft.date=2018&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1080%2F0013838X.2018.1510611&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A165906081%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Bentley&rft.aufirst=Nick&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Feprints.keele.ac.uk%2F4519%2F1%2FTrailing%2520Postmodernism%2520English%2520Studies.docx&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadie+Smith" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_recognition">Awards and recognition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadie_Smith&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Awards and recognition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Smith was elected a fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">Royal Society of Literature</a> in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 2004 <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> poll of cultural researchers, she was named among the top twenty most influential people in <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Culture of the United Kingdom">British culture</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2003, she was included on <i><a href="/wiki/Granta" title="Granta">Granta</a></i> magazine's list of 20 best young authors,<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was also included in the 2013 list.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She joined <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a>'s Creative Writing Program as a tenured professor on 1 September 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Smith has won the <a href="/wiki/Orange_Prize_for_Fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Orange Prize for Fiction">Orange Prize for Fiction</a><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Anisfield-Wolf_Book_Award" title="Anisfield-Wolf Book Award">Anisfield-Wolf Book Award</a> in 2006<sup id="cite_ref-anisfield-wolf_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-anisfield-wolf-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and her novel <i><a href="/wiki/White_Teeth" title="White Teeth">White Teeth</a></i> was included in <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> magazine's <a href="/wiki/Time%27s_List_of_the_100_Best_Novels" title="Time's List of the 100 Best Novels">list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005</a>. </p> <ul><li><i>White Teeth</i>: won the <a href="/wiki/Whitbread_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Whitbread Prize">Whitbread First Novel Award</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Guardian_First_Book_Award" title="Guardian First Book Award">Guardian First Book Award</a>, the <a href="/wiki/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize" title="James Tait Black Memorial Prize">James Tait Black Memorial Prize</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Writers%27_Prize#Commonwealth_Writers'_Prize:_Best_First_Book_(1989–2011)" class="mw-redirect" title="Commonwealth Writers' Prize">Commonwealth Writers’ First Book Award</a>. Included on <a href="/wiki/Time%27s_List_of_the_100_Best_Novels" title="Time's List of the 100 Best Novels"><i>Time</i> magazine's 100 best English-language novels published from 1923 to 2005</a></li> <li><i>The Autograph Man</i>: won the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Quarterly_Wingate_Literary_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize">Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize</a></li> <li><i>On Beauty</i>: won the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Writers%27_Prize#Commonwealth_Writers'_Prize:_Best_Book_(1987–2011)" class="mw-redirect" title="Commonwealth Writers' Prize">Commonwealth Writers’ Best Book Award</a> (Eurasia Section), and the Orange Prize for Fiction; shortlisted for the <a href="/wiki/Man_Booker_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Man Booker Prize">Man Booker Prize</a></li> <li><i>NW</i>: shortlisted for the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">Royal Society of Literature</a> <a href="/wiki/Ondaatje_Prize" title="Ondaatje Prize">Ondaatje Prize</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Prize_for_Fiction" title="Women's Prize for Fiction">Women's Prize for Fiction</a></li> <li><i>Swing Time</i>: longlisted for the <a href="/wiki/Man_Booker_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Man Booker Prize">Man Booker Prize</a> 2017<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granta#Granta_Best_of_Young_British_Novelists" title="Granta"><i>Granta</i>′s Best of Young British Novelists</a>, 2003 and 2013</li> <li>2016: <a href="/wiki/Welt-Literaturpreis" class="mw-redirect" title="Welt-Literaturpreis"><i>Welt</i>-Literaturpreis</a><sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2017: <a href="/wiki/Langston_Hughes_Medal" title="Langston Hughes Medal">Langston Hughes Medal</a><sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> awarded on 16 November at the Langston Hughes Festival at <a href="/wiki/The_City_College_of_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="The City College of New York">The City College of New York</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2019: <a href="/wiki/Infinity_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Infinity Award">Infinity Award</a>, Critical Writing and Research, <a href="/wiki/International_Center_of_Photography" title="International Center of Photography">International Center of Photography</a></li> <li>2018: <a href="/wiki/National_Book_Critics_Circle_Award" title="National Book Critics Circle Award">National Book Critics Circle Award</a> for Criticism for <i>Feel Free</i><sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2020: <i>Grand Union</i> named a finalist for The <a href="/wiki/Story_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Story Prize">Story Prize</a><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2022: <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Album_of_the_Year" title="Grammy Award for Album of the Year">Grammy Award for Album of the Year</a> win as a featured artist on <i><a href="/wiki/We_Are_(Jon_Batiste_album)" title="We Are (Jon Batiste album)">We Are</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jon_Batiste" title="Jon Batiste">Jon Batiste</a><sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2022: received the <a href="/wiki/Bodley_Medal" title="Bodley Medal">Bodley Medal</a>, the Bodleian Libraries' highest honour, "awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the worlds of books and literature, libraries, media and communications, science and philanthropy", presented by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Ovenden" title="Richard Ovenden">Richard Ovenden</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2022: <a href="/wiki/PEN_America" title="PEN America">PEN</a>/Audible Literary Service Award in recognition of Smith's "remarkable achievements as a novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose work displays unparalleled attention to craft and humane ideals".<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2022: <a href="/wiki/Critics%27_Circle_Theatre_Award" title="Critics' Circle Theatre Award">Critics' Circle Theatre Award</a> for "Most Promising Playwright" (<i>The Wife of Willesden</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2023: <i>The Fraud</i> was awarded the inaugural Westport Prize for Literature, established by <a href="/wiki/The_Westport_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="The Westport Library">The Westport Library</a> to honour "an original work of fiction that explores issues in contemporary society"<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2024: Finalist for <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Criticism" title="Pulitzer Prize for Criticism">Pulitzer Prize for Criticism</a> for "a review of the film 'Tár<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>".<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadie_Smith&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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class="citation web cs1">Snow, Georgia (11 November 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2019/zadie-smith-to-write-new-play-for-kiln-theatre-as-part-of-brent-london-borough-of-culture/">"Zadie Smith to write new play for Kiln Theatre as part of Brent London Borough of Culture"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Stage" title="The Stage">The Stage</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84718-231-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84718-231-9">978-1-84718-231-9</a>.</li> <li>Kalpaklı, Fatma. "British Novelists and Indian Nationalism: Contrasting Approaches in the Works of Mary Margaret Kaye, James Gordon Farrell and Zadie Smith", Bethesda: Academica Press, 2010. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-193-314-677-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-193-314-677-5">978-193-314-677-5</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wyatt_Mason" title="Wyatt Mason">Wyatt Mason</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060820070215/http://www.magazine.org/content/Files/Mason.October.pdf">"White Knees"</a>, an essay on Smith's body of work, <i><a href="/wiki/Harper%27s_Magazine" title="Harper's Magazine">Harper's Magazine</a></i>, October 2005.</li> <li>Broadcaster Philippa Thomas <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.londonfictions.com/zadie-smith-nw.html">on the London of Zadie Smith's <i>NW</i></a>, London Fictions, 2012.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Interviews">Interviews</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadie_Smith&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Interviews"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Elmhirst, Sophie, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thegentlewoman.co.uk/library/zadie-smith">"Zadie Smith: Adventures in Paris, London and New York with the peerless British novelist"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gentlewoman_(magazine)" title="The Gentlewoman (magazine)">The Gentlewoman</a></i>, Issue n° 14, Autumn & Winter 2016.</li> <li>Merritt, Stephanie, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,122817,00.html">"She's young, black, British – and the first publishing sensation of the millennium"</a>, <i>The Observer</i>, 16 January 2000.</li> <li>Press, Joy, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0538,bpress1,67959,10.html">"Only Connect"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080706152816/http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0538,bpress1,67959,10.html">Archived</a> 6 July 2008 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, an interview with Zadie Smith in the <i><a href="/wiki/Village_Voice" class="mw-redirect" title="Village Voice">Village Voice</a></i>, 13 September 2005.</li> <li>Stewart, Alison. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wnyc.org/story/zadie-smiths-grand-union">Interview with Zadie Smith about her work <i>Grand Union</i></a>. Interview and discussion broadcast on WNYC Public Radio show <i>All Of It</i> with Alison Stewart on 16 October 2020 (recorded in 2019).</li> <li>Tanguay, Brian, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.com/news/2017/nov/21/conversation-zadie-smith/">"A Conversation with Zadie Smith"</a>, <i>Santa Barbara Independent</i>, 21 November 2017.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadie_Smith&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output 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Auden</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasko_Popa" title="Vasko Popa">Vasko Popa</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel" title="Václav Havel">Václav Havel</a> (1968)</li> <li><span style="color:gray"><i>Not given</i></span> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Ionesco" title="Eugène Ionesco">Eugène Ionesco</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Huchel" title="Peter Huchel">Peter Huchel</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C5%82awomir_Mro%C5%BCek" title="Sławomir Mrożek">Sławomir Mrożek</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Pinter" title="Harold Pinter">Harold Pinter</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_We%C3%B6res" title="Sándor Weöres">Sándor Weöres</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miroslav_Krle%C5%BEa" title="Miroslav Krleža">Miroslav Krleža</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italo_Calvino" title="Italo Calvino">Italo Calvino</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pavel_Kohout" title="Pavel Kohout">Pavel Kohout</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir" title="Simone de Beauvoir">Simone de Beauvoir</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fulvio_Tomizza" title="Fulvio Tomizza">Fulvio Tomizza</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Kirsch" title="Sarah Kirsch">Sarah Kirsch</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doris_Lessing" title="Doris Lessing">Doris Lessing</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tadeusz_R%C3%B3%C5%BCewicz" title="Tadeusz Różewicz">Tadeusz Różewicz</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_D%C3%BCrrenmatt" title="Friedrich Dürrenmatt">Friedrich Dürrenmatt</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christa_Wolf" title="Christa Wolf">Christa Wolf</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem" title="Stanisław Lem">Stanisław Lem</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giorgio_Manganelli" title="Giorgio Manganelli">Giorgio Manganelli</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milan_Kundera" title="Milan Kundera">Milan Kundera</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrzej_Szczypiorski" title="Andrzej Szczypiorski">Andrzej Szczypiorski</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marguerite_Duras" title="Marguerite Duras">Marguerite Duras</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helmut_Hei%C3%9Fenb%C3%BCttel" title="Helmut Heißenbüttel">Helmut Heissenbüttel</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P%C3%A9ter_N%C3%A1das" title="Péter Nádas">Péter Nádas</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salman_Rushdie" title="Salman Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinghiz_Aitmatov" title="Chinghiz Aitmatov">Chinghiz Aitmatov</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inger_Christensen" title="Inger Christensen">Inger Christensen</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandar_Ti%C5%A1ma" title="Aleksandar Tišma">Aleksandar Tišma</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%BCrg_Laederach" title="Jürg Laederach">Jürg Laederach</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Tabucchi" title="Antonio Tabucchi">Antonio Tabucchi</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dubravka_Ugre%C5%A1i%C4%87" title="Dubravka Ugrešić">Dubravka Ugrešić</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P%C3%A9ter_Esterh%C3%A1zy" title="Péter Esterházy">Péter Esterházy</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Lobo_Antunes" title="António Lobo Antunes">António Lobo Antunes</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umberto_Eco" title="Umberto Eco">Umberto Eco</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christoph_Hein" title="Christoph Hein">Christoph Hein</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cees_Nooteboom" title="Cees Nooteboom">Cees Nooteboom</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julian_Barnes" title="Julian Barnes">Julian Barnes</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claudio_Magris" title="Claudio Magris">Claudio Magris</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jorge_Sempr%C3%BAn" title="Jorge Semprún">Jorge Semprún</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._L._Kennedy" title="A. 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