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White Teeth has been translated into over twenty languages and was adapted for Channel 4 television in 2002. It also won two EMMA (BT Ethnic and Multicultural Media Awards) for Best Book/Novel and Best Female Media Newcomer, and was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Author's Club First Novel Award.

The book won a number of awards and prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best First Book). Her acclaimed first novel, White Teeth (2000), is a vibrant portrait of contemporary multicultural London, told through the story of three ethnically diverse families. Website Name: The Biography.Novelist Zadie Smith was born in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother. She read English at Cambridge, graduating in 1997.We strive for accuracy and fairness.If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Best Known For: Zadie Smith is a novelist whose first book, 'White Teeth,' was a sensation, instantly putting her on the literary map.She is the youngest recipient ever to receive the prize. In March 2022, Smith was awarded the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award previously given to Toni Morrison, Stephen Sondheim and Margaret Atwood. In 2018, her sixth book, Feel Free, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Smith's fifth book, Swing Time, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2017. Smith's third novel, On Beauty, was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and won the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. At age 21, Smith submitted some 80 pages of what would become White Teeth to an agent, and the book was published in a few years later to rave reviews, winning numerous awards, including the Whitbread First Novel Award. Famed author Zadie Smith was born in London, England, on October 25, 1975.