Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith (born October 27, 1975) is a British novelist. To date she has written three novels, mainly set in London. In the last few years she has been celebrated as one of Britain's most talented young authors.

Works

Short stories

• Mirrored Box. In: The May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Short Stories 1995
• The Newspaper Man. In: The May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Short Stories 1996
• Mrs. Begum's Son and the Private Tutor. In: The May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Short Stories 1997
• Picnic, Lightning. In: The May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Short Stories 1997
• Martha, Martha. In: Granta 81: Best of Young British Novelists 2003

Novels

• White Teeth (2000)

Her first novel White Teeth is built around three families - the British and Jamiacan Joneses, the Bangladeshi Iqbals and the Jewish Catholic Chalfens - and presents several races, religions, generations and locations. It has won the Whitbread First Novel Award 2000, the Guardian First Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. In 2002 the story of White Teeth was made into a short TV series for Channel 4.

Related Topics:
White Teeth - Whitbread - Channel 4

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• The Autograph Man (2002)

Her second novel, The Autograph Man, was published in 2002. The main character of the second novel is a Jewish/Chinese Londoner named Alex-Li Tandem, who buys and sells autographs for a living. Smith's second novel won the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize 2003.

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• On Beauty (2005)

Her third novel, On Beauty, was published in September 2005. A short article in the Guardian has described it as a transatlantic comic saga. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize on September 8, 2005. She gave a preview reading of her third novel at this year's Oxford Literary Festival in April 2005.

Related Topics:
Man Booker Prize - September 8 - 2005

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Others

• The Zen of Eminem. In: Vibe, 2002.
  

An article on the rap star Eminem for the American magazine on urban music and culture Vibe.

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• Limited Circle is Pure. In: The New Republic, 3rd November 2003.
  

An article written by Zadie Smith on Franz Kafka, for a 2005 reissue of whose The Trial she also wrote a foreword.

Related Topics:
Franz Kafka - The Trial

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