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Zadie Smith
United Kingdom · Writing since 2021
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English novelist and essayist, born in London in 1975. Her fiction and criticism range across multicultural Britain, class, and the shifting shape of identity.
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Zadie Smith on north-west London and the long shadow of history
Author Spotlight· Zadie Smith58 minAug 11, 2025Transcript
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Kafka on the Shore — dreams, cats, and a border you can walk across
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White Teeth
Zadie Smith · Literary Fiction · 2000
Two wartime friends and their families work out what it means to belong in north-west London across the second half of the twentieth century.
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