![]() ![]() She then trained at Dartington College of Arts, which she was inspired to attend by Derek Jarman, whom she met while working as an usher at Notting Hill's Gate Cinema. She was educated at St Saviour’s and St Olave’s School, Southwark, and then at Hampstead School. Her father was placed under a banning order by the Apartheid government from 1964 until the family fled to London in 1968, initially living in Wembley before moving to Petts Wood. Her father, Norman Levy, was a member of the African National Congress and an academic and historian. 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 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. Her early novels included Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography and Billy & Girl. She initially concentrated on writing for the theatre – her plays were staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company – before focusing on prose fiction. Deborah Levy FRSL (born 6 August 1959) is a British novelist, playwright and poet. ![]()
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