Interview: Marina Lewycka

Jonathan Doering talks to writer Marina Lewycka about her work, Europe and Quakerism

Marina Lewycka. | Photo: © Penguin Random House UK.

Marina Lewycka revealed her talent for comic writing in 2005 when her debut novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. Two years later she was shortlisted for this award again, along with the Orwell Prize for political writing, for her thought-provoking Two Caravans. She followed these books with We are All Made of Glue and Various Pets Alive and Dead, each carving out humour from life in modern Britain.

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