What is Zadie Smith?
{{EngvarB|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = Zadie Smith | image = Zadie Smith NBCC 2011 Shankbone.jpg | alt = | caption = Smith announcing the 2010 [[National Book Critics Circle]] award finalists in fiction | pseudonym = | birth_name = Sadie Smith | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1975|10|25}} | birth_place = [[London Borough of Brent|Brent]], [[London]], [[England]] | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = {{flatlist| *Novelist *professor}} | language = English | alma_mater = [[King's College, Cambridge]] | period = 2000–present | genre = | subject = | movement = {{flatlist| *[[Realism (arts)|Realism]] *[[postmodernism]] *[[hysterical realism]] *[[New Sincerity]]}} | spouse = {{marriage|[[Nick Laird]]|2004}} | children = 2 | signature = | website = {{URL|http://www.zadiesmith.com/}} | module = <center>{{Listen|embed=yes|filename=Zadie Smith BBC Radio4 Desert Island Discs 27 September 2013 b03bg4v7.flac|title=<center>Zadie Smith's voice</center>|type=speech|description=<center>[[:File:Zadie Smith BBC Radio4 Desert Island Discs 27 September 2013 b03bg4v7.flac|Recorded September 2013]] from the BBC Radio 4 programme ''[[Desert Island Discs]]''</center>}}</center> }} '''Zadie Smith''' [[FRSL]] (born 25 October 1975)<ref name=edemariam>{{cite news|author=[[Aida Edemariam]] |url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1560999,00.html |title=Profile: Learning Curve |work=The Guardian |date=3 September 2005 |access-date=9 March 2011}}</ref> is a contemporary English<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.powells.com/post/interviews/perhaps-soon-zadie-smith-will-know-what-shes-doing-and-then-just-you-watch-out|title=Perhaps Soon Zadie Smith Will Know What She's Doing (and then Just You Watch Out) by Dave|website=www.powells.com|access-date=4 February 2019}}</ref> [[novelist]], [[essay]]ist, an