Zadie Smith: Swing Time

Southbank Centre

Zadie Smith: one of the most influential authors of the 21st century came to Southbank Centre to talk about her new novel 'Swing Time', the inspiration behind her characters and reflected on the thought process of being a writer. "I think a certain amount of humiliation is a good thing: to accept that you can never be in this role of righteousness." ZADIE SMITH Zadie Smith is in conversation with Ted Hodgkinson, Southbank Centre's Senior Programmer of Literature and Spoken Word.