Chan Centre Insights - An Evening with Zadie Smith
Join us for a captivating conversation with Zadie Smith, one of the most prolific writers of her generation, whose work has helped shape the literary landscape for over two decades
Date/Time: Oct 15 2026, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Vancouver, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | Event calendar6265 Crescent Rd.
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Cost: $59.00
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Two of Smith’s novels, White Teeth and NW, have been named among the best books of the 21st century by the New York Times and Kirkus, the former published when she was just 24. Her latest novel, The Fraud, was named Best Book of 2023 by both the New Yorker and Publishers Weekly, while Dead and Alive, her most recent collection of essays, was included on TIME’s list of must-read books of 2025. Whether writing on class, race, culture, art, or politics, Smith captivates readers around the world with her singular voice.
Smith’s novels have won major awards including the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize, and Orange Prize, among others, while her play The Wife of Willesden won a Critics’ Circle Theatre Award. She has been honoured with the Langston Hughes Medal, the St. Louis Literary Award, and the Bodley Medal.
Praised for her “boisterous narrative intelligence; ear for dialogue; [and] chronic absence of boring sentences,” (The Guardian) few writers are as consistently dazzling as Smith. Don’t miss this intimate evening with one of the most celebrated voices in contemporary literature.
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