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Marina Lewycka ( Le-VITZ-ka; born 12 October 1946) is a British novelist of Ukrainian origin. Early life Lewycka was born in a refugee camp in Kiel after World War II. Her family subsequently moved to England; she now lives in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. She attended Gainsborough High School for Girls in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, then Witney Grammar School in Witney, Oxfordshire. She graduated from Keele University in 1968 with a BA in English and Philosophy, and from the University of York with a BPhil in English Literature in 1969. She began, but did not complete, a PhD at King's College London. Career She was a lecturer in media studies at Sheffield Hallam University until her retirement in March 2012. Works Lewycka's debut novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian won the 2005 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing at the Hay literary festival, the 2005/6 Waverton Good Read Award, and the 2005 Saga Award for Wit; it was long-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and short-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. The novel has been translated into 35 languages. Her second novel Two Caravans was published in hardback in March 2007 by Fig Tree (an imprint of Penguin Books) for the United Kingdom market, and was short-listed for the 2008 Orwell Prize for political writing. In the United States and Canada it is published under the title Strawberry Fields. Lewycka's third novel, We Are All Made of Glue, was released in July 2009, and her fourth novel, Various Pets Alive and Dead, came out in March 2012.[10] Her fifth novel, published in 2016, was The Lubetkin Legacy, named after Berthold Lubetkin, the Georgian-born modernist architect, who built popular housing with the slogan: "Nothing is too good for ordinary people". The Lubetkin Legacy was shortlisted for the Bollinger Woodhouse Everyman for Comic Fiction prize. In 2009 Lewycka donated the short story "The Importance of Having Warm Feet" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the 'Earth' collection. Later the same year, she donated a second short story, "Business Philosophy", to the Amnesty International anthology Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 2020, Lewycka released the novel The Good, the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid. A review of the book in The Spectator noted that its commentary on Brexit and organ trafficking "seem not so much disparate as random". 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. References External links Marina Lewycka at British Council: Literature with complete bibliography, list of awards and critical perspective In depth biographical article at Derbyshire Life magazine website "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, Guardian, 19 March 2005 Review of Two Caravans, TimesOnLine, 25 March 2007 Interview in the Guardian, 15 July 2008 Marina Lewycka talks about We are all Made of Glue on The Interview Online . Discover the Marina Lewycka popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Marina Lewycka books.
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The Finding of Martha Lost
Caroline WallaceLiverpool, 1976: Martha is lost. She’s been lost since she was a baby, abandoned in a suitcase on the train from Paris. Ever since, she’s waited in lost property for someone to cla...
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Death of a Salaryman
Fiona CampbellKenji Yamada has a critical wife, a hated motherinlaw and what he thinks is a job for life until his fortieth birthday teaches him otherwise. Initially too embarassed to tell his f...
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The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall
Paul TordayHartlepool Hall has been in Ed's family for generations but is that about to change, and who is the mysterious Lady Alice?'A deliciously dark comedy about class, snobbery and a va...
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Cappy and the Whale
Kateryna Babkina & Hanna LelivPerfect for fans of Patrick Ness's A Monster Calls, and with beautiful colour illustrations throughout, Cappy and The Whale is a unique and wonderful Ukrainian story which Puffin a...
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Three Apples Fell from the Sky
Narine Abgaryan & Lisa C. HaydenThe Russian bestseller about love and second chances, brimming with warmth and humourIn the tiny village of Maran nestled high in the Armenian mountains, a place where dreams, curs...
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Two Eerie Tales of Suspense
Paul TordayTwo creepy, spinetingling tales from the masterful storyteller and author of R&J book club selected SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMENIn BREAKFAST AT THE HOTEL DÉJÀ VU, Bobby Clarke a...
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Light Shining in the Forest
Paul Torday'An unsettling, haunting story...memorable, atmospheric and tense' THE LADY'Wellwritten, wellcrafted and constantly gripping' DAILY MAIL'A disquieting and atmospheric psychological...
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More Than You Can Say
Paul TordayThe bestselling author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN returns with a Buchanesque thriller.'Torday has an extraordinary gift for making apparent "normality" look sinister and strang...
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The Hopeless Life Of Charlie Summers
Paul TordayA modern A TALE OF TWO CITIES by the bestselling author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN.'Brilliantly and sympathetically drawn...this wonderfully written, clever book does not miss ...