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Marina Lewycka

1946 - Today

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Marina Lewycka ( Le-VITZ-ka; born 12 October 1946) is a British novelist of Ukrainian origin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marina Lewycka has received more than 114,150 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Marina Lewycka is the 5,786th most popular writer (down from 5,597th in 2019), the 5,198th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,765th in 2019) and the 344th most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

A short history of tractors in Ukrainian
Romance, Widowers, Children of immigrants
"An amusing, astonishing debut . . . about how a family learns to let go of the past and live and love in the present." —The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionWith this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. When an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant announces his intention to remarry, his daughters must set aside their longtime feud to thwart him. For their father's intended is a voluptuous old-country gold digger with a proclivity for green satin underwear and an appetite for the good life of the West. As the hostilities mount and family secrets spill out, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian combines sex, bitchiness, wit, and genuine warmth in its celebration of the pleasure of growing old disgracefully.
2005
Carers Handbook
2003
We are all made of glue
Jewish women, Literature, Single mothers
From bonding to bondage, from B&Q to Belarus, along with seven smelly cats, three useless handymen, two slimy estate agents, social workers, a bonker lady. The story of a very unlikely friendship.Georgie Sinclair's husband has walked out; her sixteen-year-old son is busy surfing born-again websites; and all those overdue articles for Adhesives in the Modern World are getting her down.So when Georgie spots Mrs Shapiro, an eccentric old Jewish emigre neighbour with an eye for a bargain and a fondness for matchmaking, rummaging through her skip in the middle of the night, it's just the distraction she needs. And although they mistrust each other at first – Georgie doesn't like the look of that past-its-sell-by-date fish, while Mrs Shapiro thinks Georgie needs to smarten herself up and grab a new husband – a firm friendship is formed over the reduced-price shelf at the supermarket.Then Mrs Shapiro is admitted to hospital and to Georgie's surprise, she is named as her next of kin. But sorting out Mrs Shapiro's semi-derelict mansion in Highbury, home to seven stinky cats with agendas of their own, is no easy job when the handyman called in to change the locks turns out to be not what he seems and his two assistants, 'the Uselesses', are doing more breaking than fixing.And what about the two slimy estate agents (one with a charming taste for bondage) who start competing to trick Mrs Shapiro into selling her rickety old house, or the social worker determined to commit her to a nursing home?As Georgie steps in to help her new friend, she finds herself unravelling a mystery which takes her from Highbury to wartime Europe to the Middle East, and learning a bit about DIY along the way.
2009
Choices for the Carer of an Elderly Relative (Carers Handbook)
1998
Caravan
Fiction, Strawberry industry, Alien labor
A beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field and around their two caravans a group of strawberry pickers celebrates a birthday. But what lies behind the buy-one-get-one-free offers at your supermarket and who picks our strawberries? The Ukrainians: Irina, just off the coach from Kiev, and Andriy, the miner's son from the other Ukraine; the Poles: Tomasz and Yola; two Chinese girls; Emanuel, the round-eyed eighteen-year-old from Malawi. And although he can't pick strawberries, there's also the Dog . . . Hilarious, gritty, moving and slapstick, Two Caravans has all the ingredients that made A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian so successful.
2007
Caring for Someone with Diabetes
1999

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marina Lewycka ranks 5,786 out of 7,302. Before her are Avram Davidson, Edward Abbey, Aurora Mardiganian, Alifa Rifaat, Maria Polydouri, and Raffaele La Capria. After her are Robert Sabatier, Kazimierz Wierzyński, Horacio Guarany, Thomas Mofolo, Iris Chang, and Natalena Koroleva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Marina Lewycka ranks 623. Before her are Valentin Gavrilov, Alfonso Lara, Andy Mackay, Loleatta Holloway, Shahrnush Parsipur, and Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic. After her are Pearlette Louisy, John Urry, Eduard Krieger, Dave Hill, Naomi Judd, and Frank Kabui.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Marina Lewycka ranks 5,198 out of 7,253. Before her are Toni Merkens (1912), Friedhelm Funkel (1953), Justus von Dohnányi (1960), Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (1989), Uta Frith (1941), and Georg Stollenwerk (1930). After her are Maria Sander (1924), Oleh Kuznetsov (1963), Ernst Messerschmid (1945), Mario Theissen (1952), Walter Kaufmann (1921), and Sabine Busch (1962).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Marina Lewycka ranks 344. Before her are Walter Moers (1957), Erwin Strittmatter (1912), Ralf König (1960), Kito Lorenc (1938), Ulrich Plenzdorf (1934), and Irmtraud Morgner (1933). After her are Fredric Wertham (1895), Gert Hofmann (1931), Wilhelm Genazino (1943), Timur Vermes (1967), Monika Maron (1941), and Brigitte Kronauer (1940).

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