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Zadie Smith

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Born October 25, 1975
Brent, London, England
Occupation Novelist, essayist
Nationality English
Writing period 2000-present
Literary movement realism, postmodernism
Influences

Zadie Smith (born October 25, 1975)[1] is an English novelist. Events 1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The London Borough of Brent ( is a London borough in north west London, UK and forms part of Outer London. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story This article is an abbreviated list of Essayists - individuals notable for writing essays on various topics Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland This is a list of modern literary movements: that is movements after the Renaissance. Postmodernism literally means 'after the modernist movement' While " Modern " itself refers to something "related to the present" the movement of modernism This page is about the novelist For his father the politician see Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov. Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879–7 June 1970 was an English novelist Short story writer Essayist, and Librettist Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975 (ˈwʊdhaʊs was an English Comic novelist who enjoyed enormous popular success Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949 is an English Novelist, Essayist and Short story Writer, the son of writer Kingsley Raymond Clevie Carver Jr ( May 25, 1938 &ndash August 2, 1988) was an American Short story Writer Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark New Jersey) is an American novelist Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie Kt (born 19 June 1947 is an Indian - British novelist and essayist Hanif Kureishi CBE (born December 5, 1954) is an English Playwright, Screenwriter and Filmmaker, Novelist David Foster Wallace (February 21 1962&ndashSeptember 12 2008 was an American author of novels, Essays and short-stories Zora Neale Hurston ( January 7, 1891 &ndash January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist and author during the time Events 1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story To date she has written three novels. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors. Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom.

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Biography

Early life

Zadie Smith was born Sadie Smith in the northwest London borough of Brent – a largely working-class area – to a Jamaican mother, Yvonne McLean, and an English father, Harvey Smith. The London Borough of Brent ( is a London borough in north west London, UK and forms part of Outer London. Working class is a term used in academic Sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe depending on context and speaker those employed in specific fields or types Jamaica (ˈdʒəˈmeɪkə} is an Island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. Her mother had grown up in Jamaica and immigrated to England in 1969. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland It was her father's second marriage. She has a half-sister, a half-brother, and two younger brothers, one of whom is the rapper Doc Brown. Doc Brown (real name Ben Smith) is an underground British rapper. Her parents divorced when she was a teenager.

As a child she was fond of tap dancing; as a teenager she considered a career as an actress in musical theatre; and as a university student she earned money as a jazz singer and wanted to become a journalist. Tap dance was developed in the United States during the nineteenth century and is popular nowadays in many parts of the world An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works Musical theatre is a form of Theatre combining Music, Songs spoken Dialogue and Dance. Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends Literature, however, came to be her principal interest. When she was 14, she changed her name to "Zadie. "

Education and career

Smith attended the local state schools, Malorees Junior School and Hampstead Comprehensive School, and King's College, Cambridge University where she studied English literature. Hampstead School is a large multi-ethnic Comprehensive school located in the London borough of Camden. King's College Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the The term English literature refers to Literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by Writers not necessarily from [2] In an interview with the Guardian in 2000, Smith was keen to correct a recent newspaper assertion that she left Cambridge with a double First. "Actually, I got a Third in my Part Ones", she said. At Cambridge she published a number of short stories in a collection of student writing (see Short stories) called the May Anthologies. The short story is a literary genre of Fictional Prose Narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such The Mays Literary Anthology (or just The Mays) is an anthology of new writing by students from the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge These attracted the attention of a publisher who offered her a contract for her first novel. Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view Smith decided to contact a literary agent and was taken on by the Wylie Agency on the basis of little more than a first chapter.

White Teeth was introduced to the publishing world in 1997, long before it was completed. For the novel White Teeth (1953 see Okot p'Bitek. White Teeth is a 2000 Novel by the British author On the basis of a partial script an auction among different publishers for the rights started, with Hamish Hamilton being successful. "Auctioneer" redirects here For the DC Comics supervillain see Auctioneer (comics. For other uses of the name Hamish Hamilton please see Hamish Hamilton (disambiguation Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house Smith completed White Teeth during her final year at Cambridge. Published in 2000, the novel became a bestseller immediately. It was praised internationally and won a number of awards (see Novels).

In interviews she reported that the hype surrounding her first novel had caused her to suffer a short spell of writer's block. Writer's block is a Phenomenon involving temporary loss of ability to begin or continue writing usually due to lack of inspiration or Creativity. Nevertheless, her second novel, The Autograph Man, was published in 2002 and was a commercial success, although the critical response was not as unanimously positive as it had been to White Teeth.

After the publication of The Autograph Man, Smith visited the United States as a 2002–2003 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow at Harvard University. The Autograph Man, published in 2002 is the second novel by Zadie Smith. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard is an educational institution in Cambridge Massachusetts, one of the semiautonomous components of Harvard University [3] She started work on a book of essays, The Morality of the Novel, in which she considers a selection of 20th century writers through the lens of moral philosophy. Ethics is a major branch of Philosophy, encompassing right conduct and good life

Her third novel, On Beauty, was published in September 2005 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. On Beauty is a 2005 Novel by British author Zadie Smith. It takes its title from an essay by Elaine Scarry ( The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length Novel The book won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction. The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdom 's most prestigious literary prizes awarded annually for the best original full-length Novel

Private life

Smith met Nick Laird at Cambridge University. Nicholas 'Nick' Laird (Born 1975 Northern Ireland) is a Novelist and Poet who was born and grew up in Cookstown, County Tyrone The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the They married in 2004 in the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge. King's College Chapel is the chapel to King's College of the University of Cambridge, and is one of the finest examples of late English Gothic Smith dedicated On Beauty to "my dear Laird. On Beauty is a 2005 Novel by British author Zadie Smith. It takes its title from an essay by Elaine Scarry ( " The couple live in Monti (rione of Rome), Rome, Italy. Monti is the name of one of the twelve Rioni of Rome, rione I the name literally means mountains in Italian Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest

Works

Short stories

Novels

Edited Collections

Non-Fiction

Notes

  1. ^ http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1560999,00.html "Learning Curve," The Guardian, 3 September 2005
  2. ^ Zadie Smith, Granta
  3. ^ 2002-2003 Radcliffe Institute Fellows

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