Deborah Levy: ‘Art isn’t there to explain away complexities’. The cult novelist on her childhood under apartheid, writing ‘novels of ideas’ — and how Derek Jarman changed her life. © Ciaran...
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The Booker nominated author of Swimming Home on success, exile and being too literary to be published. Sat 19 Mar 2016 04.00 EDT. I n February 2013, Deborah Levy found herself on her feet...
A successful playwright in the early 1980s (Pax, Heresies, The B File), Deborah Levy published her first novel Beautiful Mutants in 1989, the next step in a lifelong engagement with form, ideas, and most of all, language.
Deborah Levy is the author of seven novels, and she has been shortlisted twice for the Goldsmiths Prize and three times for the Booker Prize. Her novels include Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, The Unloved, Billy and Girl, Swimming Home, Hot Milk and The Man Who Saw Everything.
Playwright, novelist and poet Deborah Levy (Fellow Royal Society of Literature) was born in 1959 in South Africa. She moved to Britain with her family and studied theatre at Dartington College of Arts. She was a Creative Arts Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, between 1989 and 1991.