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Deborah Levy


Born
in South Africa
January 01, 1959

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Stories


Deborah Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts leaving in 1981 to write a number of plays, highly acclaimed for their "intellectual rigour, poetic fantasy and visual imagination", including PAX, HERESIES for the Royal Shakespeare Company, CLAM, CALL BLUE JANE, SHINY NYLON, HONEY BABY MIDDLE ENGLAND, PUSHING THE PRINCE INTO DENMARK and MACBETH-FALSE MEMORIES, some of which are published in LEVY: PLAYS 1 (Methuen)

Deborah wrote and published her first novel BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS (Vintage), when she was 27 years old. The experience of not having to give her words to a director, actors and designer to interpret, was so exhilarating, she wrote a few more. These include, SWALLOWING GEOGRAPHY, THE UNLOVED (Vintage) and BILLY and GIRL (Bloomsbury). ...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 147,047 ratings · 18,129 reviews · 63 distinct works • Similar authors
Hot Milk
3.48 avg rating — 42,475 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions
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The Cost of Living: A Worki...
4.18 avg rating — 22,655 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions
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Things I Don't Want to Know
4.07 avg rating — 19,565 ratings — published 2014 — 54 editions
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Swimming Home
3.44 avg rating — 16,515 ratings — published 2011 — 58 editions
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August Blue
3.63 avg rating — 13,411 ratings — published 2023 — 27 editions
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Real Estate (Living Autobio...
4.29 avg rating — 9,975 ratings — published 2021
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The Man Who Saw Everything
3.67 avg rating — 11,402 ratings — published 2014
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Black Vodka: Ten Stories
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3.54 avg rating — 2,041 ratings — published 2013 — 18 editions
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The Position of Spoons: And...
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Swallowing Geography
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“I confess that I am often lost in all the dimensions of time, that the past sometimes feels nearer than the present and I often fear the future has already happened.”
― Deborah Levy, Hot Milk
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“Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.”
― Deborah Levy, Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places
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“She was not a poet. She was a poem.”
― Deborah Levy, Swimming Home
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