Brainwash Festival: Bold Ideas For Curious Minds w/ Deborah Levy

Name: Brainwash Festival: Bold Ideas For Curious Minds w/ Deborah Levy
Start: 2026-10-29T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-30T23:00:00+01:00
Location: Skatecafe

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 · 19:30 — Fri, 30 Oct 23:00

Skatecafe, Amsterdam

lecture culture

Brainwash Festival presents Bold Ideas For Curious Minds with Deborah Levy at Skatecafe Amsterdam.

About: Deborah Levy

Levy's fiction and autobiographical writing cut beneath the surface of everyday life with philosophical sharpness and dry wit. From her twice Booker-shortlisted novels to her latest genre-crossing work My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, she asks questions that stay with the reader long after the last page.

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reviews on Goodreads

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nominated for the Booker Prize

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nominated for the Goldsmiths Prize

What's new

2026-10
Levy opens the Brainwash Festival in Amsterdam on 29 October 2026 as headliner of the opening night at Skatecafé Amsterdam, around the theme 'the shape of us'.
2026-06
Her new novel My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein was published in June 2026 and was named by GQ, the Financial Times and BBC Culture as one of the most anticipated books of the year.
2026-02
The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast appointed Levy in February 2026 as the first International Visiting Chair for Creative Writing.

Tour

Amsterdam

Tracks

Swimming Homenovel from 2011, nominated for the Man Booker Prize and the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize

Hot Milknovel from 2016, nominated for the Man Booker Prize; adapted into a film in 2025 with Emma Mackey

Things I Don't Want to Knowfirst part of the 'living autobiography' trilogy, a response to Orwell's essay 'Why I Write'

The Cost of Livingsecond part of the autobiographical trilogy; New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2018

My Year in Paris with Gertrude Steinlatest novel (2026), a genre-crossing portrait of Gertrude Stein and modern Paris

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