The writer on Netflix’s brilliant plague tragicomedy, the best British debut novel she’s read in a while, and her deep love of singer Chappell Roan
Born in Willesden, London in 1975, Zadie Smith studied English literature at the University of Cambridge. Her bestselling debut novel, White Teeth, won numerous awards and has been adapted for stage and television. Her other novels include On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; she has also published two short story collections, three books of essays and a play. She has twice been listed as one of Granta’s 20 best young British novelists. After a decade in New York, she now lives in north-west London with her husband, the poet Nick Laird, and their two children. Smith’s latest book, The Fraud (Penguin), is out now in paperback.