Simran Hans at the NY Times:
“August Blue” is Levy’s eighth novel, and since her 20s, she has been refining her ability to evoke feeling through writing rather than to narrate it. Her work is deeply influenced by art forms that express the embodied experience, like cinema and dance. “The body in the world,” she said. “How difficult. It is my subject.”
Born in South Africa before moving to England as a child, Levy, 63, is a poet, playwright and author. Writing in The New York Times, the critic Parul Sehgal described Levy’s lucid prose as “light-handed” and leaving “a pleasant sting,” and Levy has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize twice. In 2020 she was awarded France’s prestigious Prix Femina Étranger for her memoirs “Things I Don’t Want to Know” and “The Cost of Living. ”
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