Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith was born in north London in 1975. She is a British writer. Her debut novel, *White Teeth*, was published in 2001, became an international bestseller and received numerous awards. Her novel *On Beauty* won the Orange Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Smith has also received, among other honors, the 2016 Welt-Literaturpreis and the 2018 Austrian State Prize for European Literature.