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Zadie Smith
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Zadie Smith

Author · born October 25, 1975

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Zadie Smith 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.

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Milestones, by age

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  1. ~31Received the Women's Prize for Fiction2006
  2. ~31Received the Somerset Maugham Award2006
  3. ~43Received the Austrian State Prize for European Literature2018

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1949 · Indonesia

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1984 · United States

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1972 · United States

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Douglas Diamond

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1953 · United States

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2000 · Hungary

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