Talk:Zadie Smith

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Quotes and External Links

Great quotations, but I feel "quotes" qualify under WP:TRIVIA. I've moved one to wikiquote and the other to the White Teeth page. Also, please include external links about Zadie Smith, not her various novels. I've moved the links about White Teeth and On Beauty to their respective novel pages. --Junius49 (talk) 19:10, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Works

Great work here. I've merged the short novel descriptions with their respective pages (and I started a page for the Autograph Man, which I'm currently reading). We should probably keep cleaning up the works section. --Junius49 (talk) 15:53, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Chrismeet's editing in February/March 2005

Language

As English isn't my mother tongue, I would be happy and thankful if someone would take the time to look over and correct my edits. They should not be too bad, but still...

Paragraphs: Influence, Topics

Till now I didn't manage to put a lot of information into these paragraphs. I will try to complete them, but would be thankful for any help in this.

Novel: White Teeth

I guess we will have to go through the stump on White Teeth one day. Hope to find the time in the near future, but maybe one of you is willing?

Novel: The Autograph Man

Not having read this novel yet, I wasn't really able to add information on it. If some of you find the time it would be nice to have a better description on this site and maybe even a seperate site with more detailed information.

Works in Gerneral

With such a young author, it was quite tiresome to look through all the websites mentioning her name and putting together links to everything she has published. There was no complete list anywhere. There must still be a lot missing and especially a lot to come. Can you help me keep this list updated?

Martha and Hanwell

Browsing throgh amazon, I found the following link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141023120/qid=1109634528/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_10_9/202-1364067-8327030 Looks like Zadie Smith is about to publish this the next months? Any information? I just know about the plans to publish On Beauty, nevre heard or read about Martha and Hanwell.

Date of birth

Most sources seem to agree on 27 October, but this is quite comprehensive and it says 25 October. I've seen that date elsewhere too. Does anybody know for sure? JackofOz 13:32, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't, but I see the 27 October date more often in my searches just now. (Including Wikiquote) I somehow don't think the Guardian dug out her birth certificate for the infobox at the bottom of this story, so I'm not sure that it's much more authoritative. Today's issue of Writer's Almanac archive copy goes with 27 October, and they're normally pretty thorough.

Vanhorn (talk) 07:20, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

On Beauty

Am planning to add a page on 'On Beauty' shortly, once I've finished reading 'Howard's End'. Just checking nobody's in the middle of doing the same. Fauxvegan 08:47, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"...mainly set in London" - On Beauty is not mainly set in London. It is mainly set in a fictional New England town. London does feature, but only for a chapter or two.Cravenmonket 01:46, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

translating into Chinese Wikipedia

The 22:05, 25 September 2011‎ Logical Cowboy version of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia.--Wing (talk) 18:32, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Removed notification

Many reliable sources exist on this article so notification was deleted. OR drohowa (talk) 23:29, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography

I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. Feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 02:27, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment

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Hope somebody is going to add external links for Zadie's lecture at the New York Public Library "Speaking in Tongues", and the New Yorker review. Brilliant! 151.30.208.213 (talk) 07:27, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 07:27, 19 February 2009 (UTC). Substituted at 11:13, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Assessment comment

The Education section seems to be severely lacking in this article; I am concerned with the relevance of some of the information in the section, such as the quote from her as correcting a newspaper assertion. Is there perhaps a source which cites her reception of the double fist or 'third'? Regardless, an overall expansion of the section might be beneficial. Additionally, it seems that some critical citations are missing, particularly concerning her early career aspirations and the consistent mention of Smith's personal feelings. The "in interviews" should also be cited in the second paragraph of the Career section. The article also lists the bibliography as incomplete, but I had trouble finding any works by Smith which were not listed here. Notwithstanding, an update is needed for the last sentence of the Career section - Swing Time has since been published, and some (brief) mention of its critical and popular reception as Smith's most recent book might be worth exploring. Otherwise, the article is unbiased, sources and links work effectively, and all sources seem to be reliable. Dsmith18 (talk) 04:13, 2 February 2017 (UTC)Dsmith18[reply]

Missing Link In Career Section

Including a link to a source for Martha and Hanwell would be beneficial. The summary of the content is helpful, but a link to the full text itself would allow readers to do further research instead of relying on just the few sentences given Cooper kat2018 (talk) 19:44, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Oxford or Cambridge?

"...she had translated Chaucer into contemporary English at Oxford" Presumably Cambridge. The NYT may be the source, but is paywalled. Erewhonian (talk) 08:20, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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I would like to add more information to Zadie Smith's personal life. Mckoybrianna1122 (talk) 18:00, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: this is not the right page to request additional user rights. You may reopen this request with the specific changes to be made and someone may add them for you, or if you have an account, you can wait until you are autoconfirmed and edit the page yourself. Jamedeus (talk) 18:22, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]