She followed up her success when her second novel, The Autograph Man, was nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction and won the Jewish Quarterly's Wingate Prize in 2003. The book went on to win the prestigious Whitbread Award for a first novel and the Guardian first book award Smith herself became a well-known literary celebrity in Britain. An immediate success, her debut novel garnered acclaim from critics around the world. One of the most exciting and successful British writers of the twenty-first century, Zadie Smith published her first novel, White Teeth, in the year 2000, at age 25.
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