Smith is this year’s winner of the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, an honour previously given to notable authors Toni Morrison, Stephen Sondheim and Margaret Atwood. Photo: AP
Author Zadie Smith is this year's winner of the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, an honour previously given to Toni Morrison, Stephen Sondheim and Margaret Atwood among others.
The PEN literary award is presented to "an important writer whose work has drawn a wide audience and who helps us understand the human condition in original and powerful ways.” Smith, 46, the youngest ever recipient of the literary prize, is known for novels White Teeth and NW and such essay collections as Changing My Mind and Intimations. She recently contributed the introduction to a stand-alone book edition of Morrison's short story Recitatif.
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