Zadie Smith believes all writers are control freaks. A conversation about getting older, the question of why she shuns the public and what partner choice has to do with meaning in life.
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Julia Rothhaas
“Hello?” The phone only rang twice, then Zadie Smith is already on the line. The British writer’s first collection of short stories has just appeared in German, and the volume “Reflections” will follow in the autumn, in which she deals with the Corona crisis. The pandemic is then also part of the conversation. Enlightened how things went with school in Germany last year, the 45-year-old says in her deep voice in horror: “How did the parents survive that?”