Marina Lewycka

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Marina Lewycka (born 1946, Kiel) is a British novelist of Ukrainian origin, currently living in Sheffield, England.

Lewycka was born in a refugee camp in Kiel, Germany after World War II. Her family then moved to England where she now lives. She was educated at Keele University and worked as a lecturer in media studies at Sheffield Hallam University.^[1]

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Lewycka's debut novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing at the Hay literary festival, the Waverton Good Read Award 2005/6 and was short-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction.^[2] It has been translated into a number of other languages, including Romanian, Dutch, Russian, Norwegian, Italian, Spanish, German and Swedish.

Her second novel Two Caravans was published in hardback in March 2007 by Fig Tree (Penguin Books) for the United Kingdom market, and was shortlisted for the 2008 Orwell Prize for political writing.^[3] In the United States, it is published under the title Strawberry Fields.

In addition to her fiction, Lewycka has written a number of books giving practical advice for carers of elderly people, published by the charity Age Concern.

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[edit] External links

• "Better Late Than Never", Interview by Stephen Moss, The Guardian, 31 May 2007. Retrieved on 31 May 2007.
• Three Monkeys Interview
• Debut Novelist Takes Comic Prize about her winning the Bollinger for A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
• Review of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
• Review of Two Caravans