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Zadie Smith’s biography is one of contemporary writing’s fondest and most famous yarns of precocious and meteoric literary success. As a student at Cambridge she writes White Teeth (2000), an ebullient, epically proportioned novel about multicultural London. It gets picked up by Hamish Hamilton, and on the strength of eighty manuscript pages a two-book, six-figure deal is struck before she ...
Biography of. Zadie Smith. Zadie Smith was born Sadie Smith in North London in 1975, the daughter of a working-class English father and Jamaican mother. At age fourteen, she changed the first letter of her first name to "Z," purportedly to draw attention to her individuality. Smith attended King's College, Cambridge, where she studied English ...
Text by Sophie Elmhirst. Portraits by Inez & Vinoodh. Styling by Jonathan Kaye. Issue n° 14, Autumn & Winter 2016. There is cause for celebration — a new Zadie Smith novel is in our midst. And this time, the fearless British writer has moved beyond the familiar setting of her other books, the decidedly ungentrified London postcode of NW6.
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations, and a collection of short stories, Grand Union.
NW Summary. In the first part of the novel, “Visitation,” Leah Hanwell is a social worker who lives in Northwest London with her husband Michel. They live in a working-class neighborhood, which is a step up economically from the Caldwell council estate (public housing) where Leah grew up. One day, Leah gets a visit from a former classmate ...
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations, and a collection of short stories, Grand Union.
8 de feb. de 2019 · Una conversación con la autora británica, durante el reciente Hay Festival celebrado en Cartagena de Indias, sobre la feminidad, las visiones variadas del feminismo, su deliberada existencia sin ...
