Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy ( born 1959 in the Union of South Africa ) is a British writer.

Life

Deborah Levy's father was a historian and member of the African National Congress. He was imprisoned by the apartheid regime and was forced to emigrate from South Africa to Britain, the parents divorced in London in 1974 after his release in 1968.

Levy attended until 1981 the Dartington College of Arts and began to write plays that have been well accepted by the Royal Shakespeare Company. In Cardiff, she led the Manact Theatre Company. She has written a large number of pieces and also contributions to radio and television. 1989-1991 she had a Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Levy published in 1986 with Beautiful Mutants her first novel, followed in 1993 and 1996, Swallowing Geography Billy and Girl. With a Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2001, she wrote the novel Pillow Talk In Europe And Other Places finished. The novel Swimming Home came in 2011, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and was also translated into German.

Works (selection)

• Swimming Home. London: And Other Stories, 2011, ISBN 978-1-908276-02-5. Home swim. Novel. From the Engl Richard Barth, Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8031-3247-5.