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词条 Deborah Levy
释义

  1. Life

  2. Work

     Theatre  Fiction  Academic 

  3. Awards and honours

  4. Bibliography

  5. References

  6. External links

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}}Deborah Levy FRSL (born 1959) is a British playwright, novelist, and poet. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company and she is the author of novels including Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, Billy and Girl, and the Booker-shortlisted Swimming Home.[1]

Life

Levy was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her father was a member of the African National Congress[2] and an academic and historian. The family emigrated to Wembley Park, in 1968. Her parents divorced in 1974.[3]

Work

Theatre

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).[4]

She was director and writer for Manact Theatre Company, Cardiff.[5]

Fiction

Deborah Levy 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, Billy and Girl, was published in 1996 by Bloomsbury. Her short story Proletarian Zen was published in PEN New Fiction in 1985 by PEN International and Quartet Books.

Swimming Home was published in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012[6] among other awards. Levy published a short story collection, Black Vodka in 2013, which cemented her reputation as "one of the most exciting voices in contemporary British fiction."[6] Her novel Hot Milk was published in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016.[7]

One of Levy's short stories, "Stardust Nation", was adapted as a graphic novel by Andrzej Klimowski, emeritus professor at the Royal College of Art, and published by SelfMadeHero in 2016.[8]

Academic

She was a Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1989 to 1991.

Awards and honours

  • 2001 Lannan Literary Fellowship, and 2004 Residency, Marfa[9]
  • 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards, UK Author of the Year prize shortlist for Swimming Home[10]
  • 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlist for Swimming Home and Other Stories[11]
  • 2012 BBC International Short Story Award shortlist for "Black Vodka"[12]
  • 2013 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize shortlist for Swimming Home[13]
  • 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award shortlist for Black Vodka[14]
  • 2016 Man Booker Prize shortlist for Hot Milk[7]
  • 2017 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature[15]

Bibliography

Novels
  • {{cite book| title=Beautiful Mutants| publisher=Viking| year=1989| isbn=978-0-670-82892-0 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Swallowing Geography| publisher=Jonathan Cape| year=1993| isbn=978-0-224-02729-8 }}
  • {{cite book| title=The Unloved| publisher=Jonathan Cape| year=1994| isbn=978-0-224-03038-0 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Diary of a Steak| publisher=Book Works| year=1997| isbn=978-1-870699-29-7 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Billy & Girl| publisher=Dalkey Archive Press| year=1999| isbn=978-1-56478-202-1 }}
  • Swimming Home. And Other Stories. 2011. {{ISBN|978-1-908276-02-5}}.
  • {{cite book| title=Hot Milk| publisher=Hamish Hamilton| year=2016| isbn= 978-0-241-14654-5 }}
Short story collections
  • {{cite book| title=Ophelia and The Great Idea| publisher=Jonathan Cape| year=1989| isbn=978-0-224-02596-6 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Pillow Talk In Europe And Other Places| publisher=Dalkey Archive Press| year=2004| isbn=978-1-56478-333-2 }}
  • Black Vodka, London: And Other Stories, 2013. {{ISBN|978-1-908276-16-2}}
Non-fiction
  • {{cite book| title=Things I Don't Want to Know| publisher=Penguin| year=2014| isbn=978-0241146569 }}
  • {{cite book| title=The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography| publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing| year=2018| isbn=978-1635571912}}
Poetry
  • {{cite book| title=An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell| publisher=Cape| year=1990| isbn=978-0-224-02653-6| author=Deborah Levy, Andrzej Borkowski}}
Radio Plays
  • Unless, Carol Shields, BBC Radio 4
  • Chance Acquaintances, Colette, BBC Radio 4
  • Freud: The Case Histories, BBC Radio 4
Plays
  • Pax, 1984
  • Clam, 1985
  • Heresies, 1986
  • Our Lady, 1986
  • Eva And Moses, 1987
  • {{cite book| title=Heresies & Eva and Moses: two plays| publisher=Methuen| year=1987| isbn=978-0-413-17170-2 }}
  • 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
  • {{cite book| title=Plays 1| publisher=Methuen| year=2000| isbn=978-0-413-75490-5 }}
  • Dream Mamma
  • Honey Baby
  • Ophelia And The Great Idea
  • Pushing The Prince Into Denmark

References

1. ^Wagner, Erica, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/27/hot-milk-deborah-levy-review "Hot Milk by Deborah Levy review – powerful novel of interior life"], The Guardian, 27 March 2016. ("Levy’s last novel, Swimming Home, was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2012.")
2. ^{{cite news|last1=Crown|first1=Sarah|title=Deborah Levy: ‘Space Oddity’ seemed to be about leaving the land I was born in. Being unable to return. It can still make me cry|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/19/books-interview-deborah-levy-hot-milk|accessdate=20 March 2016|work=The Guardian|date=19 March 2016}}
3. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-worst-of-times-life-after-apartheid-snot-and-tears-deborah-levy-talks-to-danny-danziger-1440660.html| title=The worst of times: Life after apartheid: snot and tears: Deborah Levy talks to Danny Danziger | first=Danny|last=Danziger| | date=3 October 1994 |work=The Independent}}
4. ^{{cite book| url=https://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| title=The Cambridge companion to modern British women playwrights | author=Elaine Aston, Janelle G. Reinelt| page=240| publisher=Cambridge University Press| year=2000| isbn=978-0-521-59533-9 }}
5. ^Deborah Levy. Contemporarywriters.com (20 February 2007). Retrieved 10 August 2011.
6. ^Elkin, Lauren. "The New Together." Times Literary Supplement, 13 March 2015. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/the-new-together/
7. ^"The 2016 Shortlist", The Man Booker Prize.
8. ^{{Cite web |url=http://thequietus.com/articles/21307-comics-graphic-novels-review-november-fantagraphics-drawn-quarterly-deborah-levy |title=Behold! November’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column |author=Redrup, Pete |authorlink= |date=13 November 2016 |publisher=The Quietus |work= |accessdate=16 November 2016 }}
9. ^Lannan Foundation. Lannan.org (6 August 2011). Retrieved on 10 August 2011.
10. ^Specsavers National Book Awards 2012
11. ^{{cite web|title=Man Booker Nominees (shortlist) 2012|url=http://themanbookerprize.com/node/1197|accessdate=12 October 2012}}
12. ^BBC International Short Story Award 2012 shortlist Retrieved 21 January 2013.
13. ^Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize 2013 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105201924/http://jewishquarterly.org/jq-wingate-prize/wingate-prize-2013/ |date=5 November 2012 }}
14. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/31/frank-o-connor-short-story-award |title=Frank O'Connor short story award pits UK authors against international stars |work=The Guardian |author=Alison Flood |date=31 May 2013 |accessdate=June 16, 2014}}
15. ^Natasha Onwuemezi, "Rankin, McDermid and Levy named new RSL fellows", The Bookseller, 7 June 2017.

External links

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