Deborah Levy

Praise for My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein

Wonderfully entertaining . . . a witty scherzo of a “fiction” . . . We are not to assume that the narrator is Levy – this is “a fiction”, after all – but of one thing we can be certain. Eva may announce that the ess ...
Guardian

Deborah Levy is that rare thing: an author who has mastered fiction and non-fiction. Here she does each with a fictionalised account of real events in the life of the American writer Gertrude Stein. It sounds imposs ...
The Times, 'The 58 books to look out for in 2026'

I absolutely loved Deborah Levy’s blending of fiction, biography, and existential pondering in My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein . . . An ode to female brilliance, to the avant-garde, to queerness, to Pari ...
Financial Times, 'Best summer books of 2026'

Wonderfully entertaining . . . a witty scherzo of a “fiction” . . . We are not to assume that the narrator is Levy – this is “a fiction”, after all – but of one thing we can be certain. Eva may announce that the ess ...
Guardian

Deborah Levy is that rare thing: an author who has mastered fiction and non-fiction. Here she does each with a fictionalised account of real events in the life of the American writer Gertrude Stein. It sounds imposs ...
The Times, 'The 58 books to look out for in 2026'

I absolutely loved Deborah Levy’s blending of fiction, biography, and existential pondering in My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein . . . An ode to female brilliance, to the avant-garde, to queerness, to Pari ...
Financial Times, 'Best summer books of 2026'

Wonderfully entertaining . . . a witty scherzo of a “fiction” . . . We are not to assume that the narrator is Levy – this is “a fiction”, after all – but of one thing we can be certain. Eva may announce that the ess ...
Guardian

Deborah Levy is that rare thing: an author who has mastered fiction and non-fiction. Here she does each with a fictionalised account of real events in the life of the American writer Gertrude Stein. It sounds imposs ...
The Times, 'The 58 books to look out for in 2026'

I absolutely loved Deborah Levy’s blending of fiction, biography, and existential pondering in My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein . . . An ode to female brilliance, to the avant-garde, to queerness, to Pari ...
Financial Times, 'Best summer books of 2026'

Wonderfully entertaining . . . a witty scherzo of a “fiction” . . . We are not to assume that the narrator is Levy – this is “a fiction”, after all – but of one thing we can be certain. Eva may announce that the ess ...
Guardian

Deborah Levy is that rare thing: an author who has mastered fiction and non-fiction. Here she does each with a fictionalised account of real events in the life of the American writer Gertrude Stein. It sounds imposs ...
The Times, 'The 58 books to look out for in 2026'

I absolutely loved Deborah Levy’s blending of fiction, biography, and existential pondering in My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein . . . An ode to female brilliance, to the avant-garde, to queerness, to Pari ...
Financial Times, 'Best summer books of 2026'

Books by Deborah Levy

Book cover of The Position of Spoons by Deborah Levy

The Position of SpoonsDeborah Levy

Book cover of August Blue by Deborah Levy

August BlueDeborah Levy

Book cover of Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 Collection by Robert Macfarlane, Deborah Levy, Jenn Ashworth, Kamila Shamsie, Michael Donkor, Michèle Roberts, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Ross Raisin, Owen Sheers, Nicholas Shakespeare, Nat Segnit, Sophie Coulombeau, Christopher Hope, Scarlett Thomas, Erica Wagner, Nicola Barker, Ian Samson, Kirsty Gunn, Philip Hoare

Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 CollectionRobert Macfarlane, Deborah Levy (and others)

Book cover of Real Estate by Deborah Levy

Real EstateDeborah Levy

Book cover of The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy

The Man Who Saw EverythingDeborah Levy

Book cover of Swallowing Geography by Deborah Levy

Swallowing GeographyDeborah Levy

Series by Deborah Levy

Living Autobiography

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Articles featuring Deborah Levy

Interviews

Deborah Levy on the art of living

Real Estate concludes the Booker shortlisted author’s celebrated trilogy of ‘living autobiographies’. Here she reflects on their innovations of style, learning from Virginia Woolf and what makes for a good life.

Deborah Levy

Praise for My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein

Wonderfully entertaining . . . a witty scherzo of a “fiction” . . . We are not to assume that the narrator is Levy – this is “a fiction”, after all – but of one thing we can be certain. Eva may announce that the ess ...

Deborah Levy is that rare thing: an author who has mastered fiction and non-fiction. Here she does each with a fictionalised account of real events in the life of the American writer Gertrude Stein. It sounds imposs ...

I absolutely loved Deborah Levy’s blending of fiction, biography, and existential pondering in My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein . . . An ode to female brilliance, to the avant-garde, to queerness, to Pari ...

Wonderfully entertaining . . . a witty scherzo of a “fiction” . . . We are not to assume that the narrator is Levy – this is “a fiction”, after all – but of one thing we can be certain. Eva may announce that the ess ...

Deborah Levy is that rare thing: an author who has mastered fiction and non-fiction. Here she does each with a fictionalised account of real events in the life of the American writer Gertrude Stein. It sounds imposs ...

I absolutely loved Deborah Levy’s blending of fiction, biography, and existential pondering in My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein . . . An ode to female brilliance, to the avant-garde, to queerness, to Pari ...

Wonderfully entertaining . . . a witty scherzo of a “fiction” . . . We are not to assume that the narrator is Levy – this is “a fiction”, after all – but of one thing we can be certain. Eva may announce that the ess ...

Deborah Levy is that rare thing: an author who has mastered fiction and non-fiction. Here she does each with a fictionalised account of real events in the life of the American writer Gertrude Stein. It sounds imposs ...

I absolutely loved Deborah Levy’s blending of fiction, biography, and existential pondering in My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein . . . An ode to female brilliance, to the avant-garde, to queerness, to Pari ...

Books by Deborah Levy

Series by Deborah Levy

Living Autobiography

Articles featuring Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy on the art of living

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