Deborah Levy Libros Populares

Deborah Levy Biografía y Hechos

Deborah Levy FRSL (Johannesburgo, 1959) es una dramaturga, novelista y poeta británica. Ha escrito obras para la Royal Shakespeare Company y es autora de novelas como Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, Billy and Girl y Swimming Home, obra finalista del Booker Prize.[1]​ Biografía Levy nació en Johannesburgo, Sudáfrica y creció y estudió en Inglaterra, país al que su familia había emigrado en 1968. Su padre era académico e historiador y fue miembro del Congreso Nacional Africano.[2]​ Sus padres se divorciaron en 1974.[3]​ Trayectoria Levy se formó en el Dartington College of Arts, que dejó en 1981 cuando empezó a escribir sus primeras obras a la edad de 21 años, entre ellas Pax, Heresies para la Royal Shakespeare Company y Plays 1 (Methuen) publicada en Levy. También ha publicado poesía y relatos.[4]​[5]​ Fue directora y escritora de Manact Theatre Company, Cardiff.[6]​ Ficción Deborah Levy publicó su primera novela, Beautiful Mutants, en 1986. Su segunda obra de ficción, Swallowing Geography, salió a la luz en 1993 en Jonathan Cape, y en 1996 lo hizo Billy and Girl, en Bloomsbury. En 1985 publicó su cuento, Proletarian Zen, en PEN New Fiction por PEN International y Quartet Books. Su novela Swimming Home fue seleccionada para el Premio Man Booker 2012.[7]​ La publicación de una colección de cuentos, Black Vodka (and Other Stories, 2013), consolidó su reputación como "una de las voces más emocionantes de la ficción británica contemporánea".[8]​ Su novela Hot Milk se publicó en 2016 y fue nominada para el Premio Man Booker 2016.[9]​ Uno de los cuentos de Levy, Stardust Nation, fue adaptado como una novela gráfica por Andrzej Klimowski, profesor emérito del Royal College of Art, y publicado por SelfMadeHero en 2016.[10]​ Vida académica Desde 1989 hasta 1991 fue Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts en el Trinity College de Cambridge. Premios y reconocimientos 2001: Lannan Literary Fellowship. 2004: Residency Marfa[11]​ 2012: Specsavers National Book Awards, finalista del UK Autor of the Year Prize por su novela Swimming Home [12]​ 2012: finalista del Premio Man Booker por Swimming Home y por Other Stories [7]​ 2012: finalista del BBC International Short Story Award, por Black Vodka [13]​ 2013: finalista del Jewish Wingate Prize por Swimming Home [14]​ 2013: Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award por Black Vodka [15]​ 2016: finalista del Man Booker Prize por Hot Milk [9]​ 2017: Miembro de la Royal Society of Literature[16]​ Bibliografía Referencias Enlaces externos "Una entrevista con Deborah Levy" Archivado el 4 de noviembre de 2008 en Wayback Machine., BookSlut, mayo de 2004. Deborah Levy Archivado el 23 de diciembre de 2017 en Wayback Machine. [1] Archivado el 23 de diciembre de 2017 en Wayback Machine.. Descubre los libros populares de Deborah Levy. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Deborah Levy

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Best Seller Deborah Levy Libros de 2024

  • The Fraud sinopsis y comentarios

    The Fraud

    Zadie Smith

    Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Wa...

  • Evangelista's Fan sinopsis y comentarios

    Evangelista's Fan

    Rose Tremain

    ‘A master class in the art of storytelling’ ObserverThis short story collection demonstrates the enormous range of Tremain’s talent and imagination. The teasing and brilliant title...

  • El hombre que lo vio todo sinopsis y comentarios

    El hombre que lo vio todo

    Deborah Levy

    La última novela de Deborah Levy,nominada al ManBookerPrize 2019«Una exploración de la historia, de la naturaleza de la tiranía política y de cómo los amantes pueden, a la vez, fas...

  • The First Person and Other Stories sinopsis y comentarios

    The First Person and Other Stories

    Ali Smith

    A formbending and endlessly inventive collection of short stories from the MAN BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED and WOMEN'S PRIZEWINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaim...

  • Fierce Appetites sinopsis y comentarios

    Fierce Appetites

    Elizabeth Boyle

    'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary MantelTop 25 History Books of the Year, The Times the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!Every day a beloved father dies. Every d...

  • Outline sinopsis y comentarios

    Outline

    Rachel Cusk

    The first in Rachel Cusk's landmark trilogy, shortlisted for the Folio Prize and the Goldsmith Prize and longlisted for the IMPAC Prize.'A work of stunning beauty, deep insight and...

  • Mouthful of Birds sinopsis y comentarios

    Mouthful of Birds

    Samanta Schweblin & Megan McDowell

    A SPELLBINDINGLY CREEPY COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, FROM AN ARGENTINIAN LITERARY STAR'The Grimm brothers and Franz Kafka pay a visit to Argentina in Samanta Schweblin's darkly hum...

  • Absolutely and Forever sinopsis y comentarios

    Absolutely and Forever

    Rose Tremain

    'An electrifying, wordperfect tale… Gently devastating, devastatingly beautiful’ Daily Mail'Funny, piercing, and singular… I can’t fathom the reason why you wouldn’t rush straight ...

  • Malina sinopsis y comentarios

    Malina

    Ingeborg Bachmann

    'An intense, courageous novel, equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett' The New York TimesPart detective novel, part love story, part psychoanalytic case study, Mali...

  • Milk Teeth sinopsis y comentarios

    Milk Teeth

    Jessica Andrews

    'Consuming and sexy' The Times'Unusually raw . . . so honest and hopeful' Financial Times☀️ ☀️ ☀️A girl grows up in the northeast of England amid scarcity, fearing her own desires ...

  • Invisible Walls sinopsis y comentarios

    Invisible Walls

    Hella Pick

    'Memoirs of such richness are rare . . . a joy' JAMES NAUGHTIE'A remarkable personal journey, by one of the great political correspondents of our world eloquent, enlightening, exh...

  • Summary of Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living sinopsis y comentarios

    Summary of Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living

    Everest Media

    Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 When we want a happy ending, it depends on where we stop the story. In a bar on ...

  • El coste de vivir sinopsis y comentarios

    El coste de vivir

    Deborah Levy

    Premio Femina 2020 de novela extranjera:Cosas que no quiero saber y El coste de vivir, la «autobiografía en construcción» de Deborah Levy.¿Qué quiere decir ser libre como mujer o c...

  • Gliff sinopsis y comentarios

    Gliff

    Ali Smith

    The first of two new, interconnected novels from bestselling, awardwinning, BookerPrize shortlisted author Ali SmithFollowing her dazzling fivenovel portrait of our age, the ‘Seaso...

  • Cosas que no quiero saber sinopsis y comentarios

    Cosas que no quiero saber

    Deborah Levy

    PremioFemina 2020 denovelaextranjera:Cosasque noquiero saber y Elcoste devivir, la «autobiografíaenconstrucción» de Deborah Levy.Cosas quenoquiero saber y Elcoste devivirforman la ...

  • On Freedom sinopsis y comentarios

    On Freedom

    Maggie Nelson

    What can freedom really mean?'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' OLIVIA LAINGIn this invi...

  • Black Vodka sinopsis y comentarios

    Black Vodka

    Deborah Levy

    Was macht die Liebe mit uns? Und was machen wir mit uns selbst, im Namen der Liebe – oder aus Mangel daran? Deborah Levys Protagonistinnen und Protagonisten bewegen sich zwischen L...

  • Educated sinopsis y comentarios

    Educated

    Tara Westover

    THE MULTIMILLION COPY BESTSELLERA BETWEEN THE COVERS PICKSelected as a book of the year by AMAZON, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW YORK TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, VOGU...

  • Other Stories and Other Stories sinopsis y comentarios

    Other Stories and Other Stories

    Ali Smith

    A vitally alive and eversurprising collection of stories from the Booker Prizeshortlisted, Women's Prizewinning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quart...

  • Blue Ticket sinopsis y comentarios

    Blue Ticket

    Sophie Mackintosh

    From the author longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction and selected as one of the Best Young British Novelists of the Decade:An unsettling and addict...

  • Spontaneous Acts sinopsis y comentarios

    Spontaneous Acts

    Yoko Tawada & Susan Bernofsky

    The highly anticipated new novel from awardwinning, critically acclaimed novelist Yoko Tawada.Patrik is a literary researcher living in Berlin, a city just coming back to life afte...

  • Iron Curtain sinopsis y comentarios

    Iron Curtain

    Vesna Goldsworthy

    'A piercingly evocative EastWest love story' The TimesThis is a story of East and West. A story of love, betrayal, and lost illusions...The end of the Cold War seems unimaginable f...

  • Childhood, Youth, Dependency sinopsis y comentarios

    Childhood, Youth, Dependency

    Tove Ditlevsen, Tiina Nunnally & Michael Favala Goldman

    'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in workingclass Copenhagen through her struggle to li...

  • American Pastoral sinopsis y comentarios

    American Pastoral

    Philip Roth

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEPhilip Roth’s masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth century America ‘Swede’ Lev...

  • Notes on Heartbreak sinopsis y comentarios

    Notes on Heartbreak

    Annie Lord

    'Arresting and vivid, raw and breathtaking...told with stunning originality' DOLLY ALDERTON, author of EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE'Annie Lord tells us a story at once both specifi...

  • Nightwood sinopsis y comentarios

    Nightwood

    Djuna Barnes

    Lose yourself in the tortured love lives of expats in 1920s Paris in this iconic cult classic. 'Nightwood is itself. It is its own created world, exotic and strange, and readin...

  • Portrait of an Unknown Lady sinopsis y comentarios

    Portrait of an Unknown Lady

    María Gainza & Thomas Bunstead

    In this dazzling story of art and illusion, secrets and schemes, who is to be trusted and what is real?From the internationally acclaimed author of Optic Nerve A TLS Book of the Y...

  • Girl, 1983 sinopsis y comentarios

    Girl, 1983

    Linn Ullmann

    A heartrending work of autofiction from one of Norway's most prominent literary writers‘By writing down what happened, by telling the story as truthfully as I can, I’m trying to br...

  • Lucy by the Sea sinopsis y comentarios

    Lucy by the Sea

    Elizabeth Strout

    'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary MantelFROM THE BOOKERSHORTLISTED, PULITZER PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR 'It is a gift in this life that we do...

  • Other Lives But Mine sinopsis y comentarios

    Other Lives But Mine

    Emmanuel Carrère & Linda Coverdale

    Read this an expansive meditation on death, grief and the limtless reach of the human spirit from the bestselling author of The Adversary ‘Compelling… Carrère has the gift of speak...

  • On Java Road sinopsis y comentarios

    On Java Road

    Lawrence Osborne

    A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the prodemocracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the ...

  • Wifedom sinopsis y comentarios

    Wifedom

    Anna Funder

    'Truly wonderful... Anna Funder has written another brilliant human portrait.' Claire Tomalin A BLAZING, GENREBENDING MASTERPIECE FROM ONE OF THE MOST INVENTIVE WRITERS OF OUR TIM...

  • Wallflower at the Orgy sinopsis y comentarios

    Wallflower at the Orgy

    Nora Ephron

    ‘Nora Ephron can write about anything better than anybody else can write about anything’New York TimesA bitingly funny, provocative and revealing look at our foibles, passions and ...

  • A Guest at the Feast sinopsis y comentarios

    A Guest at the Feast

    Colm Tóibín

    A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.From the melancholy...

  • Scaffolding sinopsis y comentarios

    Scaffolding

    Lauren Elkin

    'The Susan Sontag of her generation' Deborah LevyThe story of two couples who live in the same apartment in northeast Paris almost fifty years apart.In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst,...

  • Do Not Become Alarmed sinopsis y comentarios

    Do Not Become Alarmed

    Maile Meloy

    When Liv and Nora decide to take their husbands and children on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities seem infinite. But when they all go as...

  • Azul de agosto sinopsis y comentarios

    Azul de agosto

    Deborah Levy

    La nuevanovela de Deborah Levy,finalista del Premio Booker, y laaclamadaautora de Elhombre que loviotodo y Elcoste devivir.«Lafuerza de Levy essuoriginalidad depensamiento yexpresi...

  • Johannesburg sinopsis y comentarios

    Johannesburg

    Fiona Melrose

    6 December 2013. It is a searing hot day in Johannesburg. Gin has returned to the city of her birth to throw a party for her mother's eightieth birthday. She is determined, with li...

  • Una casa propia sinopsis y comentarios

    Una casa propia

    Deborah Levy

    El cierre de la Autobiografía en construcción de una Deborah Levy que logra su habitación propia.Deborah Levy imagina una casa en una latitud cálida, cerca de un lago o de un mar. ...

  • Supper Club sinopsis y comentarios

    Supper Club

    Lara Williams

    Riotously fun and uplifting, a comingofage story about difficult friendships, delicious feasts, and taking control of your body and your happiness a richly indulgent and lifeaffir...

  • The Saturday Wife sinopsis y comentarios

    The Saturday Wife

    Naomi Ragen

    Bestselling author Naomi Ragen mixes poignant storytelling and irreverent wit with her talent for creating finely drawn characters in this tale of a young Rabbi's wife who slowly b...

  • Strangers at the Port sinopsis y comentarios

    Strangers at the Port

    Lauren Aimee Curtis

    A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'This novel amazed me. It is the work of a true original' LUCIE ELVEN'I loved Strangers at the Port. It is deliciously spare, yet complex a story ...

  • City of Bohane sinopsis y comentarios

    City of Bohane

    Kevin Barry

    Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award ‘A electrifying masterpiece’ Joseph O’Connor The oncegreat city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infe...

  • Into a Star sinopsis y comentarios

    Into a Star

    Puk Qvortrup & Hazel Evans

    Intimate and devastating, a luminous debut novel about untimely grief and the resilience of the human heart, inspired by the author's own experiences'Three in the bed. One not yet ...

  • Free sinopsis y comentarios

    Free

    Lea Ypi

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be hooked' Laura Hackett, Sunday Tim...

  • Nightbitch sinopsis y comentarios

    Nightbitch

    Rachel Yoder

    Are you looking for a book with bite?'OUTRAGEOUS, SMART, FUN' Bonnie Garmus, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry'BRILLIANT' StylistOne day, the mother was a mot...

  • Tremor sinopsis y comentarios

    Tremor

    Teju Cole

    Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling. Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflec...

  • Harmless Like You sinopsis y comentarios

    Harmless Like You

    Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

    WINNER OF THE 2017 AUTHORS' CLUB FIRST NOVEL AWARDWINNER OF A BETTY TRASK AWARD'Announces a startling talent' Guardian'This brilliant debut novel is cause for celebration' Lorrie M...

  • Everest sinopsis y comentarios

    Everest

    Ashani Lewis

    She is momentarily furious. Hasn't she seen at five the red blood of fishes? Hasn't she dipped her fingers in their guts, watched them tug at life on her father's lap, seen them la...

  • My Name Is... sinopsis y comentarios

    My Name Is...

    Alastair Campbell

    She likes a drink. Everyone has a problem.Hannah is seventeen. A drink makes her feel better. For a bit. But then she feels worse and the pain inside comes back. This is the story...