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Deborah Levy


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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). She has always written across a number of art forms (see Bookworks and Collaborations with visual artists) and was Fellow in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1989-1991.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
Novels
   The Unloved (1994)
   Billy and Girl (1996)
   Swimming Home (2011)
   Hot Milk (2016)
   The Man Who Saw Everything (2019)
   August Blue (2023)
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Collections
   Ophelia and the Great Idea (1988)
   An Amorous Discourse In the Suburbs of Hell (poems) (1990)
   Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places (2003)
   Road Stories (2012) (with others)
   Black Vodka (2012)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Beautiful Mutants (1989)
   Swallowing Geography (1993)
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Plays show
 
Graphic Novels show
 
Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Deborah Levy recommends
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Children of Paradise (2022)
Camilla Grudova
"Grudova understands that the best writing has to pull off the hardest aesthetic trick - it has to be both memorable and fleeting."
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Blue Ticket (2020)
Sophie Mackintosh
"The cool intensity and strange beauty of Blue Ticket is a wonder - be sure to read everything Sophie Mackintosh writes."
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Vulgar Things (2014)
Lee Rourke
"Rourke is on his way to becoming the J.G Ballard of Southend-on-Sea."

Anthologies containing stories by Deborah Levy
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Best European Fiction 2010 (2009)
(Best European Fiction)
edited by
Aleksandar Hemon

Awards
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2012) : Swimming Home
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2016) : Hot Milk
Goldsmiths Prize Best Book nominee (2016) : Hot Milk
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2019) : The Man Who Saw Everything
Goldsmiths Prize Best Book nominee (2019) : The Man Who Saw Everything


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