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Zadie Smith
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Person

Zadie Smith

b. 1975

English novelist, essayist and short story writer (born 1975)

Born
25 Oct 1975 · London

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 59 years
  1. 25 Oct 1975BornBorn in London
  2. 2000AwardCosta Book Awards
  3. 2000AwardGuardian First Book Award
  4. 2000AwardJames Tait Black Memorial Prize
  5. 2000AwardWriter in residence
  6. 2002AwardFellow of the Royal Society of Literature
  7. 2006AwardAnisfield-Wolf Book Awards
  8. 2006AwardBollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
  9. 2006AwardSomerset Maugham Award
  10. 2006AwardWomen's Prize for Fiction
  11. 2017AwardLangston Hughes Medal
  12. 2018AwardAustrian State Prize for European Literature
  13. 2018AwardNational Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1975 – today).

  1. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  3. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  4. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  5. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  6. 1985Schengen Agreement
  7. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  8. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  9. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  10. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  11. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  13. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  14. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  15. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  16. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  17. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  18. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  19. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  20. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  21. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  22. 20112011 Norway attacks
  23. 2011Libyan civil war
  24. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  25. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  26. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  27. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  28. 2015Paris Agreement
  29. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  30. 2020COVID-19 pandemic
  31. 20212020 Summer Olympics
  32. 2022Russo-Ukrainian war
  33. 2023Gaza war
  34. 20242024 Summer Olympics
  35. 20262026 Iran war

Biography

Zadie Smith (born Sadie Smith; 25 October 1975) 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. Smith became a tenured professor in the creative writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.

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