Question: What nationality is novelist Zadie Smith's husband?
Context: Jean-Pol Fargeau is a French screenwriter and frequent collaborator of director Claire Denis.  With Denis, he co-wrote "Chocolat" (1988), "Beau Travail" (1999), and "35 Shots of Rum" (2008) and "Bastards" (2013) among others.  As of 2015, Fargeau and Denis are writing their first English-language film with novelist Zadie Smith and Smith's husband, novelist and poet Nick Laird; the film is a science-fiction piece set in space. NW is a 2012 novel by British author Zadie Smith.  It takes its title from the NW postcode area in North-West London, the setting of the novel.  The novel is experimental and follows four different characters living in London, shifting between first and third person, stream-of-consciousness, screenplay-style dialogue and other narrative techniques in an attempt to reflect the polyphonic nature of contemporary urban life.  It was nominated for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. The Book of Other People is a collection of short stories, published in 2008 by Penguin Books.  Selected and edited by Zadie Smith, it contains 23 short stories by 23 different authors, among them Nick Hornby, David Mitchell, Colm Tóibín, Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave Eggers, as well as Smith herself.  The collection, as evidenced by the title, focuses on character; the authors were simply asked to "make somebody up".  It being a "charity anthology," the contributors to "The Book of Other People" were not compensated for their writing, and the book's proceeds were given to 826NYC, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students with their creative writing skills. Zadie Smith FRSL (born on 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer.  She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002.  In a 2004 BBC poll of cultural researchers, Smith was named among the top twenty most influential people in British culture. Diran Adebayo FRSL (born 30 August 1968) is a British novelist, cultural critic and academic best known for his stylish, inventive tales of London and the lives of African diasporans.  His work has been characterised by its interest in multiple cultural identities, subcultures, and its distinctive, "musical" use of language.  His work has won many awards and wide acclaim from critics.  His fans include the writer Zadie Smith, who has praised him for his "humanness", arguing that he is one of a few English writers who "trade in both knowledge and feeling".  In 2002 "The Times Literary Supplement" named him as one of the Best Young British Novelists. Nicholas "Nick" Laird (born 1975) is a Northern Irish novelist and poet. The Autograph Man, published in 2002, is the second novel by Zadie Smith.  It follows the progress of a Jewish-Chinese Londoner named Alex-Li Tandem, who buys and sells autographs for a living and is obsessed with celebrities.  Eventually, his obsession culminates in a meeting with the elusive American-Russian actress Kitty Alexander, a star from Hollywood's Golden Age.  In 2003, the novel won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize.  The novel was a commercial success, but was not as well received by readers and critics as her previous and first novel, "White Teeth" (2000).  Smith has stated that before she started work on "The Autograph Man" she had writer's block. High Life is an upcoming sci-fi adventure drama film written directed by Claire Denis.  It is Denis' first English language film.  Apart from Denis, her long-time collaborator Jean-Pol Fargeau and novelist Nick Laird co-wrote the screenplay for the film.  Additionally Laird's wife Zadie Smith polished the script.  The film stars Robert Pattinson, Patricia Arquette, and Mia Goth in lead roles.  The film focuses on a group of criminals who are tricked into believing they will be freed if they participate in a mission to travel on a spaceship towards a black hole to find an alternate energy source while being sexually experimented on by the scientists on board. Swing Time is a novel by British writer Zadie Smith.  Smith began to read excerpts from her novel in autumn 2015 with an intended release date of autumn 2016.  The release date was later confirmed as 15 November 2016. Philip Tew (born Enfield, Middlesex, England) is a professor of Post-1900 Literature at Brunel University.  He is the author of works on B.S. Johnson, Jim Crace, Zadie Smith, and the contemporary British novel.  Some of his work has focused on social gerontology and the use of narrative theories in social, cultural and policy analysis.
Answer: Northern Irish