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Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy
Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcast on the BBC, and widely translated. The author of highly praised novels, including three Booker-nominated titles, The Man Who Saw Everything, Hot Milk and Swimming Home, the acclaimed story collection Black Vodka, and two parts of her working autobiography, Things I Don’t Want to Know and The Cost of Living, she lives in London. Levy is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.


All or Nothing: Deborah Levy on Marguerite Duras’s The Lover

“Duras never covertly apologizes for the moral or psychological way that she exists in the world.”
October 7, 2024  By Deborah Levy
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“You hurt me / With your desire / For other.” Poetry by Deborah Levy

From An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell
February 3, 2023  By Deborah Levy
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Deborah Levy: Finding a Room House of One’s Own

“Yes. I wanted a house. And a garden. I wanted land.”
August 26, 2021  By Deborah Levy
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