Front Row | Zadie Smith
Based on White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Novelist and essayist, Zadie Smith (White Teeth, On Beauty, NW) talks to Kirsty about black and white musicals, childhood friendships, and dancing, as she discusses her new novel, Swing Time.
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The Verb | In the North
Zadie Smith talks about representing the suburb of Willesden in her new novel NW. White Teeth was her first novel. She's also written The Autograph Man and On Beauty, which was shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2005 and won The Orange Prize for Fiction 2006.
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Open Book | 09/09/2012
Zadie Smith talks to Mariella Frostrup about her much-anticipated new novel, NW.