Her first novel "White Teeth" won the 2000 Whitbread First Novel Award,
the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and the 2001
Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book award.
'King's was an incredible experience for me. The reading list required
for the English syllabus transformed the way I wrote and the teaching
radically changed the way I thought. Add to this a nice river, a lovely
room, trees, friends and drink, and the result was the best three years
of my life.'
