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Biography
Zadie Smith (born 25 October 1975) is a British novelist, essayist, and short-story writer.
Awards & recognition
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 2023
- Bodley Medal · 2022
- Austrian State Prize — European Literature · 2018
- National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism · 2018
- Langston Hughes Medal · 2017
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- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards · 2006
- Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize · 2006
- Somerset Maugham Award · 2006
- Women's Prize — Fiction · 2006
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature · 2002
- Costa Book Awards · 2000
- Guardian First Book Award · 2000
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize · 2000
- writer in residence · 2000
- Booker Prize · 2017 · nominated
- Booker Prize · 2005 · nominated
- Booker Prize · 2002 · nominated
