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Marina Lewycka (born 1946, Kiel) is a British writer of Ukrainian origin long resident 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 is now a lecturer in media studies at Sheffield Hallam University.^[1]

Her debut novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 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 Dutch, Norwegian, Italian, German and Swedish.

Her second novel Two Caravans was released in February 2007.^[3]

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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• "Better Late Than Never", Interview by Stephen Moss, The Guardian, 31 May 2007. Retrieved on 31 May 2007.</ref>
• Interview with Marina Lewycka in which she discusses her first novel Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, her own Ukrainian immigrant family, how she became an author, and the release of her upcoming second novel.LoadedShelf 01/07.
• Three Monkeys Interview