Deborah Levy (born 6 August 1959) is a British novelist, playwright and poet. She initially concentrated on writing for the theatre – her plays were staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company – before focusing on prose fiction. Her early novels included Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography and Billy & Girl. Her more recent fiction has included the Booker-shortlisted novels Swimming Home and Hot Milk, as well as the Booker-longlisted The Man Who Saw Everything and the short story collection Black Vodka.

Early life and education

Levy was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the granddaughter of working class Lithuanian Jewish immigrants on her father's side, and an upper-middle class "English colonial" family, as she described it, on her mother's side. Her father, Norman Levy, was a member of the African National Congress and an acad…Read more on Wikipedia