A poet and playwright, her first novel Beautiful Mutants, about a mysterious Russian exile, came out in 1987, when she was 27. As with any output from the South African-born, London-raised author in the past decade, it is a literary event her three previous novels were all nominated for the Booker Prize and in 2020 she won the Prix Femina étranger, France’s principal literary award for works in translation. Today, at 63, she publishes her eighth novel, August Blue. And then we realise we don’t want to hold it together.”ĭeborah Levy is far from defeated. “We try to get a grip and hold it together. She was writing about what it cost to leave her husband, father to her two young daughters, in the early years of this century. “If she is not too defeated by the society story, she will change the story,” Deborah Levy observes in 2018’s The Cost of Living, the second of a trilogy she calls her “living autobiographies”.
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