People like Marina Lewycka

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

Lewycka was born in a refugee camp in Kiel after World War II. Her family subsequently moved to England; she now lives in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. She attended Gainsborough High School for Girls in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, then Witney Grammar School in Witney, Oxfordshire. She graduated from Keele University in 1968 with a BA in English and Philosophy, and from the University of York with a BPhil in English Literature in 1969. She began, but did not complete, a PhD at King's College London.

She was a lecturer in media studies at Sheffield Hallam University until her retirement in March 2012.