| Novelist Zadie Smith to Read Sept. 19
Acclaimed British novelist Zadie Smith will give a reading at Bryn Mawr on Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Thomas Great Hall.
Free and open to the public, Smith's appearance is part of the College's yearlong Creative Writing Program Reading Series, which features award-winning poets, fiction and nonfiction writers and playwrights. For further information, contact the Office for the Arts at 610-526-5210.
Smith's first novel, White Teeth, was the winner of The Whitbread First Novel Award, The Guardian First Book Award, The James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and The Commonwealth Writers' First Book Award. Her second novel, The Autograph Man, won The Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize. Her third novel, On Beauty, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won The Commonwealth Writers' Best Book Award (Eurasia Section) and the Orange Prize for Fiction.
Smith is currently working on a book of essays on ethical thought in 20th-century fiction and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
The Washington Post has called Smith "brilliant … a postmodern Charles Dickens."
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