Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith Smith announcing the 2010 National Book Critics Circle award finalists in fiction. Born Sadie Smith (1975-10-25) 25 October 1975 (age 39) Brent, London, England Occupation Novelist, professor of creative writing Nationality British Alma mater King's College, Cambridge Period 2000–present Literary movement Realism, postmodernism, hysterical realism Zadie Smith's voice Sorry, your browser either has JavaScript disabled or does not have any supported player. You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. Recorded September 2013 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs Zadie Smith FRSL (born on 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer. As of 2012, she has published four novels, all of which have received substantial critical praise. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors, and was also included in the 2013 list. She joined New York University's Creative Writing Program as a tenured professor on 1 September 2010. Smith has won the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Anisfield- Wolf Book Awards in 2006 and her novel White Teeth was included in Time magazine's TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 list.