Zadie Smith

1975 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

movement: literary realism

genre: novel

country of citizenship: United Kingdom

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: King's College, Hampstead School

occupation: writer, novelist, essayist, academic

award received: James Tait Black Memorial Prize, writer in residence, Costa Book Awards, Women's Prize for Fiction, Somerset Maugham Award, Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Langston Hughes Medal, Guardian First Book Award, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Austrian State Prize for European Literature, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

influenced by: Vladimir Nabokov, Salman Rushdie

official website: www.zadiesmith.com

Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She has been a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University since September 2010. Source: Wikipedia (en)