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White Teeth

by Zadie Smith

Betty Trask · 2001 · WinnerCosta Book · 2000 · WinnerJames Tait · 2000 · Winner
Literary FictionISBN 9781400075508

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Betty Trask Award2001Winner
Costa Book of the YearCosta First Novel Award2000Winner
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction2000Winner

About the Author

Zadie Smith was born Sadie Smith on 25 October 1975 in Willesden, north-west London, of Jamaican and English descent. She changed her name to Zadie at age fourteen. Educated at local schools and King's College, Cambridge, where she studied English literature, Smith published early short stories that led to a publishing deal. Read more →

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