Zadie Smith
(London, 1975) published her first novel ‘White Teeth’, in 2000, when she had not yet finished her studies in English Philology at Cambridge University. Her debut was a literary event that established her as a promising young writer of worldwide renown. Her subsequent novels consolidated her reputation as a writer: ‘The Autograph Man’, ‘On Beauty’, ‘NW’, and ‘Swing Time’. The Fraud is her sixth novel, published in 2024 by Salamandra, as is her extensive oeuvre in Spanish, which includes the essay collections ‘Changing My Mind’, ‘Feel Free’, and ‘Intimations’, as well as ‘Gran Union’, a short stories book. She is also the author of two children’s books with her husband (the poet and novelist Nick Laird), an adaptation of Chaucer for the theatre and numerous articles on literary and film criticism. Between 2010 and 2020, she was a Professor of Literature at New York University, after which she returned to live in northwest London, where she grew up.
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