Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy (born August 6, 1959 in the Union of South Africa ) is a British writer.

Life

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

Levy attended Dartington College of Arts until 1981 and began writing plays, which were also accepted by the Royal Shakespeare Company . In Cardiff , she ran the Manact Theater Company . She has written a large number of plays as well as contributions to radio and television. From 1989 to 1991 she had a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge .

With a Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2001, she completed the novel Pillow Talk In Europe And Other Places . The novels Swimming Home and Hot Milk were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012 and 2016 . Swimming Home , which was also translated into German, is set in 1994 and is about a young mentally ill woman who sneaks into the summer residence of a well-known British writer and his family and causes numerous conflicts in the supposed idyll on the French Mediterranean coast. Hot Milk is set in a Spanish fishing village during the summer and focuses on a young woman whose mother is suffering from mysterious symptoms of paralysis.

Works (selection)

• The Cost of Living , Penguin, 2019, ISBN 978-0241977569
  • What life costs . Translation Barbara Schaden. Hoffman and Campe, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-455-00514-1
• Hot milk . Hamilton, 2016, ISBN 9780241146552
  • Hot milk . Translation Barbara Schaden. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, February 15, 2018, ISBN 978-3462049770
• Black Vodka . Wycombe: And Other Stories, 2013, ISBN 9781908276162
  • Black Vodka . Translation Barbara Schaden. Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2015
• Swimming home . London: And Other Stories, 2011, ISBN 978-1-908276-02-5 .
  • Swim home. Novel . Translation Richard Barth, Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8031-3247-5 .
• Pillow Talk In Europe And Other Places . Dalkey Archive Press, 2004, ISBN 978-1-56478-333-2 .
• Plays 1 . Methuen, 2000
• Diary of a steak . Book Works. 1997
• Billy and Girl . 1996
• Swallowing Geography . Cape, 1993, ISBN 978-0-224-02729-8 .
• An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell . Poems. Cape, 1990, ISBN 9781908276469
• Beautiful mutants . Viking, 1989, ISBN 978-0-670-82892-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Deborah Levy in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Deborah Levy in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Deborah Levy at perlentaucher.de
• Deborah Levy , at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin , 2015
• Jessa Crispin: Interview , at BookSlut, May 2004
• Deborah Levy , at doollee, The Playwrights Database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Danny Danziger: The worst of times: Life after apartheid: snot and tears , The Independent , October 3, 1994