Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Women's Prize for Fiction | 2006 | Winner |
About This Book
A campus novel set in Wellington, a fictional liberal college town in New England, where professor Howard Belsey — an Englishman married to an African-American woman — is in conflict with his academic nemesis, the conservative Trinidadian scholar Monty Kipps. Inspired by E.M. Forster's Howards End, the novel is a comedy of manners about race, class, beauty, and family. Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction.
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 →
