Writer Zadie Smith talks about her life and career in a Close Encounter

The London-based writer, one of the loudest and most powerful voices of her generation, will retrace her twenty-year career in front of a festival audience: her first novel, “White teeth” (Mondadori), was published in 2000 and became a literary world sensation. In the following years, she wrote “The Autograph Man”, “On Beauty”, “NW” and “Swing Time”, through which she tackled contemporary issues with great irony and depth, bringing out the most painful aspects of reality. Since 2010 Zadie Smith has been teaching at the New York University. She works on a regular basis with the “New York Times” and the “New Yorker”.