The author on her favourite tapas spot, wild swimming and the South African artist who excites her most
Born in 1962 in South Africa, Deborah Levy moved to England at the age of nine, where she studied contemporary arts at Dartington College of Arts. In 1989, she published her first collection of short stories, Ophelia and the Great Idea, and a second, Black Vodka, in 2013. Two of her novels, Swimming Home (2011) and Hot Milk (2016), were shortlisted for the Booker prize; her latest, The Man Who Saw Everything, (Hamish Hamilton, £14.99) is published on 29 August.
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