Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy is a novelist, playwright and poet, born in Johannesburg in 1959 and based in London. She trained at Dartington College of Arts and began in the theatre, with plays staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, before turning to prose.

Her novels Swimming Home (2012) and Hot Milk (2016) were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and The Man Who Saw Everything (2019) was longlisted. She is also known for her "living autobiography" memoirs Things I Don't Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate, and for the short story collection Black Vodka.