Zadie Smith is one of the great authors of contemporary literature. Born in London in 1975, she made her literary debut with White Teeth (in Spanish, Dientes Blancos, Salamandra, 2001) which, describing London’s multiethnic society at the end of the twentieth century, was widely acclaimed internationally as well as receiving the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. Set against the backdrop of British colonialism, Smith’s fiction, which is notable for its lucidity, humour, and sensitivity, is concerned with questions about identity and the inner contradictions of her characters. Her outstanding novel on love and the family, On Beauty (in Spanish, Sobre la belleza, Salamandra, 2006), was a finalist for the 2005 Booker Prize and, in the also notable Swing Time (in Spanish, Tiempos de Swing, Salamandra, 2017), she explores awareness of class inequality. In 2023, she published her most recent work, The Fraud (in Spanish, La impostura, Salamandra, 2024), in which she ventures into the historical novel while still exploring humanity, this time, that of nineteenth-century London.