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Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: OM ed
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Published: 27 Jan 2000

ISBN 10: 0241141028
ISBN 13: 9780241141021
Prizes: Winner of The Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best First Book Eurasia 2001 and WH Smith Book Awards: New Talent 2001 and Whitbread Book Awards: First Novel Category 2000. Shortlisted for Mail on Sunday / John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2001 and Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 2000 and Orange Prize for Fiction 2000.

Author Bio
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia, and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.