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Profile of Sid Smith
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Sid Smith |
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11th July 1925 |
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
This article is about the novelist and journalist. For the ice hockey player, see Sid Smith (hockey player)
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Sid Smith is an award-winning English novelist and journalist.
Life and career
Sid Smith was born in London. He worked in a diverse range of blue-collar jobs - dustman and construction worker among them - before turning to journalism. At present, he is sub-editor of a national newspaper.
Smith came rather late to literary prominence. He had been a journalist for 17 years and was already in his 50s when his debut novel Something Like A House was published in 2001. The tale of a British deserter in China at the time of the Cultural Revolution, Something Like A House won the praise of critics and went on to win both the James Tait Black Award and the Whitbread First Novel Award. What was remarkable about the book was its meticulous evocation of time and place, especially since Smith had never been to China and had written the book entirely from his own research, conducted among other places in the British Library. (Smith has been quoted as saying that his only previous contact with China had been a "one-hour stopover at Hong Kong airport".)
Smith's second novel A House by the River (2003) was another thriller set in China. The books are part of a planned China trilogy that the author is working on.
Smith lives in Islington in north London.
Notable works
- Something Like A House, 2001
- A House by the River, 2003
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