Marina Lewycka

Marina Lewycka

Marina Lewycka (* 1946 in Kiel ) is a British writer of Ukrainian descent.

Lewycka was born in a refugee camp in Kiel after the Second World War . Her father Petro Lewyckyj (1912–2008) was an engineer. The family later moved to Great Britain . Marina Lewycka studied at Keele University . She lives in Sheffield and teaches media studies at Sheffield Hallam University .

She made her literary debut in 2005 at the age of almost 60 with the novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (German Short History of the Tractor in Ukrainian ). The book developed into an international bestseller and has since been translated into 33 languages. In 2005 she was awarded the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize at the Hay Literature Festival. 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 by Fig Tree / Penguin in London in 2009. The German first edition came out in April 2010 in the Deutsches Taschenbuch Verlag in Munich under the title Life sticking out.

Works

• Short history of the tractor 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 ; Director: Oliver Sturm , from MDR Leipzig (1 CD, 60 minutes), Hörverlag , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-86717-077-2 ; as audio book : an abbreviated reading by Iris Berben , 4 CDs (315 minutes), Random House, Cologne 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 by Anna Thalbach , Stefan Kaminski , Carin C. Tietze , directors: Martin Heindel and Marie-Luise Goerke (4 CDs, 280 minutes) , Hörverlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-86717-163-2 .
• Gluing life (original title: We Are All Made of Glue translated by Sophie Zeitz). dtv 24780, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-24780-1 ; as an abridged reading by Katharina Thalbach (4 CDs), Hörverlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86717-521-0 .
• The values ​​of the modern world with consideration 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 .
• Lubetkin's legacy or From one who did not move (Original title: The Lubetkin legacy , translated by Sophie Zeitz-Ventura). dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-26160-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marina Lewycka. In: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. Retrieved September 19, 2012 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Bubbly and share of pig for winner of Wodehouse prize. In: The Guardian. June 6, 2005, accessed September 19, 2012 .  

Web links

• Literature by and about Marina Lewycka in the catalog of the German National Library