ZADIE SMITH Author

Novelist Zadie Smith was born in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother. She read English at Cambridge, graduating in 1997. She is best known for her award winning noval, White Teeth.

Her acclaimed first novel, White Teeth (2000), is a vibrant portrait of contemporary multicultural London, told through the story of three ethnically diverse families. The book won a number of awards and prizes, including the Guardian First Book Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Best First Book). It also won two awards at the BT Ethnic and Multicultural Media Awards (EMMA) for Best Book and Best Female Newcomer, and was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Author's Club First Novel Award. White Teeth has been translated into over twenty languages and was adapted for Channel 4 television for broadcast in autumn 2002. Her tenure as Writer in Residence at the Institute of Contemporary Arts resulted in the publication of an anthology of erotic stories entitled Piece of Flesh (2001).
More recently, she has written the introduction for The Burned Children of America (2003), a collection of eighteen short stories by a new generation of young American writers.

Zadie Smith's second novel, The Autograph Man (2002), a story of loss, obsession and the nature of celebrity, won the 2003 Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for Fiction. In 2003 she was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. She is currently a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University.

Bibliography
Speaking with the Angel (contributor) Penguin, 2000
White Teeth Hamish Hamilton, 2000
The May Anthologies (editor) Varsity Publications, 2001
Piece of Flesh (editor) Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2001
The Autograph Man Hamish Hamilton, 2002
Best of Young British Novelists 2003 (includes short story 'Martha, Martha' by Zadie Smith) Granta, 2003
The Burned Children of America (introduction) Hamish Hamilton, 2003

Prizes and awards
2000 Guardian First Book Prize White Teeth
2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize White Teeth
2000 Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (shortlist) White Teeth
2000 Whitbread First Novel Award White Teeth
2001 Author's Club First Novel Award (shortlist) White Teeth
2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Best First Book) White Teeth
2001 EMMA Award for Best Book (BT Ethnic and Multicultural Media Awards) White Teeth
2001 EMMA Award for Best Female Newcomer (BT Ethnic and Multicultural Media Awards) White Teeth
2001 Orange Prize for Fiction (shortlist) White Teeth
2001 W. H. Smith Book Awards (Best New Talent category winner) White Teeth
2003 Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for Fiction The Autograph Man
2003 Orange Prize for Fiction (shortlist) The Autograph Man

Selected Works
White Teeth (2000)
The Autograph Man (2002)

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