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Breakfast and Conversation with Zadie Smith
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When and where
Date and time
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 · 9 - 10:15am EDT
Location
Photonics Colloquium Room 8 St Mary's Street Boston, Massachuestts 02215
Description
Breakfast and Conversation with Zadie Smith
By
Boston University Provost's Office, the Dean of Students' Office, the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Kilachand Honors College, the NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship, the CAS Core Curriculum, and the BU Alumni Association.
Description
Zadie Smith, essayist and renowned author of White Teeth, On Beauty, and Swing Time, joins Boston University students in a discussion of her work. The event is free and open to members of the Boston University community, but an RSVP is required.
Tuesday, March 27th
9:00 am - 10:15 am
Photonics Colloquium Room
8 St Mary's Street
This event is open exclusively to Boston University students and faculty.
Novelist Zadie Smith was born in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother. She read English at Cambridge, before graduating in 1997.
Her acclaimed first novel, White Teeth (2000), is a vibrant portrait of contemporary multicultural London, told through the stories of three ethnically diverse families. The book won a number of awards and prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best First Book), and two BT Ethnic and Multicultural Media Awards (Best Book/Novel and Best Female Media Newcomer). It was also shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday's John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Author's Club First Novel Award. White Teeth has been translated into over twenty languages and was adapted for Channel 4 television for broadcast in autumn 2002.
Zadie Smith's The Autograph Man (2002), a story of loss, obsession and the nature of celebrity, won the 2003 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction. In 2003 and 2013 she was named by Granta magazine as one of 20 "Best of Young British Novelists." On Beautywon the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction and her novel NW was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was named as one of The New York Times "10 Best Books of 2012."
Zadie Smith writes regularly for The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. She published one collection of essays, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (2009) and her new book of essays is entitled Feel Free (February 6, 2018, Penguin Random House). She is also working on a book of short stories and a new novel. Her most recent novel is Swing Time (November 2016). In 2017 she was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters, she was also the recipient of the 2017 City College of New York’s Langston Hughes Medal.
Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of Creative Writing at New York University.