Marina Lewycka

Marina Lewycka ( born 1946 in Kiel ) is a British novelist of Ukrainian descent.

Lewycka came after the Second World War in a refugee camp in Kiel to the world. Her father Petro Lewyckyj (1912-2008) was an engineer. Later the family moved to the United Kingdom. Marina Lewycka studied at Keele University. She lives in Sheffield and works as a lecturer in media studies at Sheffield Hallam University.

Her literary debut was in 2005 at the age of nearly 60 years with the novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian ( German Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian). The book became an international bestseller and has been translated into 33 languages ​​. At Hay Festival of Literature she was awarded in 2005 with the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. In the same year she was nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, Two Caravans was published in February 2007 ( German caravan). Her third novel, We Are All Made of Glue was published in 2009 in Fig Tree / Penguin, London. The German edition came out in April 2010 at the Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag in Munich under the title Life sticking out.

Works

  • Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian ( Original title: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, translated by Elfi Hartenstein ), Roman. dtv 24557 Premium, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-24557-9; as a radio play: by Claudia Kattanek. With Elisabeth Trissenaar, Lena Stolze, Traugott Buhre; Directed by: Oliver Sturm, MDR Leipzig (1 CD, 60 minutes), Hörverlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-86717-077-2; as an audio book: an abridged reading of Iris Berben, 4 CDs (315 minutes), Random House, Köln 2011, ISBN 978-3-8371-0875-0 ( = Brigitte - strong voices ).
  • Caravan (Original Title: Two Caravans translated by Sophie Zeitz ). dtv 24621 Premium, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-24621-7: abridged reading with music of Annathal Bach, Stefan Kaminski, Carin C. Tietze, Director: Martin Heindel and Marie -Luise Goerke ( 4 CDs, 280 minutes), Hörverlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-86717-163-2.
  • Life glue (Original Title: We Are All Made of Glue translated by Sophie Zeitz ). dtv 24780, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-24780-1; as abridged reading of Catherine Bach Thal (4 CDs), Hörverlag, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-86717-521-0.
  • The values ​​of the modern world in the light of various small animals ( original title: Various Pets, Alive and Dead, translated by Sophie Zeitz ). dtv 28006, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-423-28006-8.
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