Deborah Levy
Autor de Swimming Home
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: The Booker Prize Foundation
Series
Obras de Deborah Levy
La Position de la cuillère. Et autres bonheurs impertinents: Et autres bonheurs impertinents (2023) 3 copias
Agosto azul 1 copia
Fast ejendom 1 copia
Coffret trilogie Deborah Levy : autobiographie en mouvement - (Ce que je ne veux pas savoir + Le Coû (2021) 1 copia
An Act of Love 1 copia
The unloved : a novel 1 copia
Beautiful mutants 1 copia
Ο άνθρωπος που τα είδε όλα 1 copia
Our Hero Helen: Liquid Knowledge 1 copia
Eva and Moses 1 copia
The Next Wave 1 copia
The Next Wave II 1 copia
Cose che non voglio sapere 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: Twelve Stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare (2016) — Contribuidor — 35 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1962-08-06
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Lugares de residencia
- Johannesburg, South Africa
Wembley Park, England, UK - Educación
- Dartington College of Arts
- Ocupaciones
- playwright
novelist
short story writer
Director - Relaciones
- Levy, Norman (father)
- Premios y honores
- Lannan Literary Fellowship (2001)
- Biografía breve
- Deborah Levy was born 6 August 1962 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her father, an academic and historian, was a member of the African National Congress. The family emigrated to Wembley Park, London in 1968. She studied theater at Dartington College of Ars and became a playwright whose works have been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company since 1981. She is also the author of several acclaimed novels, including Beautiful Mutants (1988), Swallowing Geography (1993), and Billy & Girl (1999). Her novel Swimming Home (2011) was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize, and was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2012. The title story in her short story collection, Black Vodka and Other Stories (2013) was shortlisted for the BBC International Short Story Award. Hot Milk was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, and The Man Who Saw Everything was selected for the 2019 Booker Prize longlist. She has been a director and writer for the MANACT Theatre Company in Cardiff, Wales, and a Creative Arts Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. She's a regular contributor of articles and reviews to newspapers and magazines including The Independent, The Guardian, and the New Statesman.
Miembros
Debates
Swimming Home, by Deborah Levy en And Other Stories (enero 2013)
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy en Booker Prize (septiembre 2012)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 46
- También por
- 11
- Miembros
- 4,115
- Popularidad
- #6,114
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 190
- ISBNs
- 224
- Idiomas
- 19
- Favorito
- 6
Entretejiendo el pasado y el presente, lo personal y lo político, y convocando a Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Georgia O’Keeffe o Céline Schiamma, la autora indaga en el significado de la feminidad y de la propiedad. A través de sus recuerdos hace inventario de sus posesiones reales e imaginarias y cuestiona nuestra forma de entender el valor de la vida intelectual y cotidiana de la mujer. Después de Cosas que no quiero saber y El coste de vivir, esta obra es la culminación de una autobiografía escrita en el fragor de una vida que no está solamente protagonizada por Levy, sino por todas las mujeres que la sostienen con una red invisible.… (más)