瑪琳娜·柳薇卡（Marina Lewycka） 英國文壇近年來最炙手可熱的暢銷書作傢。“二戰”結束時齣生於德國基爾難民營，父母均為烏剋蘭人。她在英國長大，居住在謝菲爾德，任教於哈勒姆大學。

58歲時柳薇卡藉《烏剋蘭拖拉機簡史》一書一舉成名，贏得2005年波靈格大眾伍德豪斯喜劇小說奬和機智小說奬。2007年齣版《英國農民工小像》，延續其黑色喜劇的風格，並於2008年入圍喬治·奧威爾奬。

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.