Deborah Levy
Author of Swimming Home
About the Author
Image credit: The Booker Prize Foundation
Series
Works by Deborah Levy
La Position de la cuillère. Et autres bonheurs impertinents: Et autres bonheurs impertinents (2023) 3 copies
Beautiful mutants 1 copy
The unloved : a novel 1 copy
Coffret trilogie Deborah Levy : autobiographie en mouvement - (Ce que je ne veux pas savoir + Le Coû 1 copy
An Act of Love 1 copy
Ο άνθρωπος που τα είδε όλα 1 copy
Eva and Moses 1 copy
The Next Wave 1 copy
The Next Wave II 1 copy
Livets omkostninger 1 copy
Associated Works
Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: Twelve Stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare (2016) — Contributor — 35 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1962-08-06
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Places of residence
- Johannesburg, South Africa
Wembley Park, England, UK - Education
- Dartington College of Arts
- Occupations
- playwright
novelist
short story writer
Director - Relationships
- Levy, Norman (father)
- Awards and honors
- Lannan Literary Fellowship (2001)
- Short biography
- Deborah Levy was born 6 August 1962 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her father, an academic and historian, was a member of the African National Congress. The family emigrated to Wembley Park, London in 1968. She studied theater at Dartington College of Ars and became a playwright whose works have been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company since 1981. She is also the author of several acclaimed novels, including Beautiful Mutants (1988), Swallowing Geography (1993), and Billy & Girl (1999). Her novel Swimming Home (2011) was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize, and was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2012. The title story in her short story collection, Black Vodka and Other Stories (2013) was shortlisted for the BBC International Short Story Award. Hot Milk was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, and The Man Who Saw Everything was selected for the 2019 Booker Prize longlist. She has been a director and writer for the MANACT Theatre Company in Cardiff, Wales, and a Creative Arts Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. She's a regular contributor of articles and reviews to newspapers and magazines including The Independent, The Guardian, and the New Statesman.
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Swimming Home, by Deborah Levy in And Other Stories (January 2013)
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy in Booker Prize (September 2012)
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