Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy (born 1959 South Africa) is a British playwright, novelist, and poet.

Life

Levy's father was a member of the African National Congress, an academic, a historian. The family emigrated to Wembley Park, in 1968. Her parents divorced in 1974.^[1]

Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts, leaving in 1981 to write a number of plays, including Pax, Heresies for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and others which are published in Levy: Plays 1 (Methuen)^[2]

She was director and writer for Manact Theatre Company, Cardiff.^[3]

Deborah wrote and published her first novel Beautiful Mutants, in 1986. Her second novel, Swallowing Geography, was published in 1993 by Jonathan Cape, while her third one, Billy and Girl, was published in 1996 by Bloomsbury. Swimming Home, her latest novel, has been published in 2011 by the London publishing house And Other Stories.

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

Awards

• 2001 Lannan Literary Fellowship, and 2004 Residency, Marfa^[4]

Works

• "Star Dust Nation,". Eclectic England. Mad Hatter Review. http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue8/england_levy1.shtml. 

Novels

• Swimming Home, London: And Other Stories, 2011. ISBN:978-1-908276-02-5
• Pillow Talk In Europe And Other Places. Dalkey Archive Press. 2004. ISBN 9781564783332. http://books.google.com/books?id=Yo6MHyJ7b5AC&dq=Deborah+Levy&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=Nc1ypYzMI9&sig=OfKnIjBJv-xJQ5ePE_c5M5cqWFY&hl=en&ei=KyMcSsT9A5PoMLD4gZoP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4. 
• Billy & Girl. Dalkey Archive Press. June 1999. ISBN 9781564782021. http://books.google.com/books?id=GbCbdKJ318IC&pg=PP1&dq=Deborah+Levy. 
• Diary of a Steak. Book Works. 1997. ISBN 9781870699297. 
• The Unloved. J.Cape. 1994. ISBN 9780224030380. 
• Swallowing Geography. Jonathan Cape. 1993. ISBN 9780224027298. 
• Deborah Levy, Andrzej Borkowski (1990). An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell. Cape. ISBN 9780224026536. 
• Beautiful Mutants. Viking. 1989. ISBN 9780670828920. 
• Ophelia and The Great Idea. Cape. 1989. ISBN 9780224025966. 

Plays

• Pax, 1984
• Clam, 1985
• Heresies, 1986
• Our Lady, 1986
• Eva And Moses, 1987
• Heresies & Eva and Moses: two plays. Methuen. 1987. ISBN 9780413171702. 
• Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs Of Hell, 1991
• The B File, 1992
• Blood Wedding, 1992
• Call Blue Jane, 1992
• Walks On Water, 1992
• Shiny Nylon, 1994
• Macbeth – False Memory, 2000
• Plays 1. Methuen. 2000. ISBN 9780413754905. 
• Dream Mamma
• Honey Baby
• Ophelia And The Great Idea
• Pushing The Prince Into Denmark

Radio Plays

• Unless, Carol Shields, BBC Radio 4
• Chance Acquaintances, Colette, BBC Radio 4

References

1. ^ DANNY DANZIGER (3 October 1994). "The worst of times: Life after apartheid: snot and tears: Deborah Levy talks to Danny Danziger". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-worst-of-times-life-after-apartheid-snot-and-tears-deborah-levy-talks-to-danny-danziger-1440660.html. 
2. ^ Elaine Aston, Janelle G. Reinelt (2000). The Cambridge companion to modern British women playwrights. Cambridge University Press. p. 240. ISBN 9780521595339. http://books.google.com/books?id=bb2E7k3fXQoC&pg=PA240&lpg=PA240&dq=%22Deborah+Levy%22+playwright&source=bl&ots=oJt4UJ9HBP&sig=oo6PPVvD4ErJT33RGTUo1zL-ns8&hl=en&ei=2jwcSuLuIpSWMeSXuJYP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10#PPA240,M1. 
3. ^ Deborah Levy. Contemporarywriters.com (20 February 2007). Retrieved on 10 August 2011.
4. ^ Lannan Foundation. Lannan.org (6 August 2011). Retrieved on 10 August 2011.

External links

• Author's website
• "An Interview with Deborah Levy", BookSlut, May 2004
• Deborah Levy, doollee

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