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Zadie Smith
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english novelist, essayist and short story writer (born 1975)
Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer born in 1975 who has become one of the most prominent literary voices of her generation. Her work is widely read and studied because of her sharp social observations, inventive storytelling, and ability to explore contemporary themes of identity, culture, and belonging.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 25 Oct 1975
- Works
- 69
Top works
- Best European Fiction 2010
- The Library Book
- In the wild
- White Teeth
- Changing my mind
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1975-10-25
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 323
- Total plays
- 10,543
Tags
Zadie Smith (born 25 October 1975) is an English novelist. To date she has written three novels. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors. She joined New York University's Creative Writing Program as tenured Professor from September 1, 2010. Zadie Smith was born Sadie Smith in the northwest London borough of Brent – a largely working-class area – to a Jamaican mother, Yvonne Bailey, and an English father, Harvey Smith. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Zadie+Smith">
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,666x
- Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 42,306x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,538x
- GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers
· 2015 · cited 25,364x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,475x
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Quotes
- “Most literary prizes are only nominally about literature. They are really about brand consolidation for beer companies, phone companies, coffee companies and even frozen food companies.”
- “The more blessed she felt on earth, the more rarely she turned to heaven.”
- “His mind was a small thing with big holes through which passions regularly seeped out.”
- “The thinnest covering of luck was on him like fresh dew. While he slipped in and out of consciousness, the position of the planets, the music of the spheres, the flap of a tiger moth's diaphanous wings in Central Africa, and a whole bunch of other stuff that makes shit happen had decided it was second-chance time for Archie.”
- “This is what divorce is: Taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.”
- “Ryan's freckles were a join-the-dot's enthusiast's wet dream.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie Smith; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth, published in 2000, was an immediate best-seller and won a number of awards. Smith became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.
Early life and education
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