Marina Lewycka

Marina Lewycka ( ; 12 October 1946 – 13 November 2025) was a German-born Ukrainian-British novelist.

Her first novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, won the 2005 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing at the Hay literary festival. It was also nominated for the 2005 Man Booker Prize.Man Booker Prize 2005  The novel has been translated into 35 languages.

Lewycka died on 13 November 2025, at the age of 79.

References

Other websites
 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

Category:1946 births
Category:2025 deaths
Category:Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
Category:German novelists
Category:Ukrainian writers
Category:British novelists
Category:Writers from Schleswig-Holstein
Category:Writers from Sheffield