Zadie Smith
British writer Zadie Smith author of 'NW' and shortlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction poses for photographs at a photo call prior to the award ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London on June 5, 2013.
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Great casual comment drop-in by Jane Smiley/Zadie Smith here, calmly schooling the Atlantic
I am Zadie Smith, another writer. I have two children. Dickens had 10 — I think Tolstoy did, too. Did anyone for one moment worry that those men were becoming too father-ish to be writer-esque?
It is like Barbara Kingsolver and Zadie Smith being previous winners, you just concentrate on the book itself.More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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Mantel, Kingsolver on Women's Prize shortlist
-- Hilary Mantel, Barbara Kingsolver and Zadie Smith are among three British authors and three Americans shortlisted for the Women's Prize for fiction.Mantel's "Bring Up the Bodies," Kingsolver's "Flight Behavior" and Smith 's "NW" are finalists for the award, Read more »
Around the web
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Within Packer's new bestseller The Unwinding, a critical portrait of Jay-Z
Jay-Z generally gets treated fawningly by the media (see Zadie Smith's "Civic-Minded Hip-Hop Mogul," from the New York Times's T Magazine last September), so its notable to see a strong contrary view in The Unwinding, New Yorker writer (and Brooklynite) from Atlantic Yards Report Read more »
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Your weekend reading: Iain Banks, Neil Gaiman, Zadie Smith and the Miles Franklin shortlist
Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off This week in books: we pay tribute to Iain Banks, revisit the Miles Franklin shortlist, and Neil Gaiman takes over the Guardian books site Iain Banks at his home in North Queensferry, Fife, in May. Ph from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
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NW, by Zadie Smith
Let’s start by considering the “London” that author Zadie Smith has chosen to make the centre of this novel. I am a Canadian, but I have visited London many times and consider it my favorite metropolitan city. Having said that, I have never set foot in t from Kevin From Canada Read more »
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Book reviews: NW by Zadie Smith | An English Affair by Rupert Davenport-Hines | Higher Gossip by John Updike
Lots of us have heard the story of the Profumo scandal. Half a century ago, the Minister of War was connected, through an exotic dancer, to a Soviet naval attaché; later, there was a show trial, a high-profile death and gossip that lasted for decades. He from The Scotsman Read more »
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‘Motherhood is not a threat to creativity’ — Zadie Smith and other prominent authors react to controversial article
Sandler recommends a one-child policy for female writers who want to see success. Zadie Smith and other prominent female writers have reacted against an article published by The Atlantic entitled: ‘The Secret to Being Both a Successful Writer and a Mothe from Melville House Publishing Read more »
