Through a Cambridge friend ZS
met (while she was a nineteen-year-old undergraduate, not a published writer) Ian McEwan
and Martin Amis
. It was at McEwan's wedding celebration, a party full of people from my...
Literary responses
Zadie Smith
On the basis of this novel, The Times hailed ZS
as canonical, one of a handful of contemporary novelists who really matter and who, we may confidently assume, will last.
When in 1983 the magazine Granta presented a list of twenty names identified as the Best Young British Novelists, RT
was among them (along with Pat Barker
, Martin Amis
, Salman Rushdie
...
