Deborah Levy: Why the Novel Matters – Live Stream

The Goldsmiths Prize celebrates fiction that breaks the mould, and in its annual lecture series leading authors their thoughts on the art of the novel.

For her talk, Deborah Levy argues that the novel uniquely gives close attention to the ways we negotiate with reality, which is the core of all writing and living.

In this personal manifesto on why the novel matters, she contends that it is the form that can most freely unmask the co-existence of immense power
and vulnerability in its human protagonists.

After her lecture, Levy takes part in a conversation with Tom Gatti, executive culture editor at the New Statesman.