Mantel, Smith on Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist

Hilary Mantel, Barbara Kingsolver and Zadie Smith are among three British authors and three Americans shortlisted for the Women's Prize for fiction. Mantel's "Bring Up the Bodies," Kingsolver's "Flight Behavior" and Smith's "NW" are finalists for ...

LONDON Pakistani writer Kamila Shamsie and established best-seller Zadie Smith have been named in Granta magazines list of best young British novelists a once-a-decade roster with a reputation for predicting literary stars. The lineup of 20 writers ...

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Fiction followed suit. The literature of the 1990s and early 2000s was a catchall of voices and styles: experimental and staid, high and low, monumental and grotesque—often all at once. While an older generation of novelists—Peter Carey and ...

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A list of 20 young writers has been unveiled by literary magazine Granta.Two authors named in 2013 - Zadie Smith and Adam Thirlwell - appeared on the previous Granta Best of Young British Novelists list in 2003.The list was announced at the British ...

Any reader of Jane Austen or George Eliot — and, more recently, Zadie Smith — is familiar with Britain's class system, by which Britons sort themselves, either ironically or seriously , into rigidly-defined castes, based on things like ...

Due for publication in November, Zadie Smith's short story "The Embassy of Cambodia" will once again take readers into north-west London, just as previous novels "NW" and "White Teeth" did. Previously published in The New Yorker in February, "The ...

The novel takes a few faint-hearted steps away from realism before finding its groove Matt Daniels North by north-west: Zadie Smith's works are deep explorations of the London in which she grew up. Photo: David Levenson/ Updated: Fri, Sep 28 2012.