Bernice Rubens
Bernice Rubens · Arts & Literature
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1928, Cardiff, Wales — 2004, London, England
United Kingdom (Wales · England)
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Bernice Rubens was a Welsh novelist who in 1970 became the first woman to win the Booker Prize, for 'The Elected Member,' a novel drawing on Jewish family life. She wrote more than two dozen books exploring guilt, family and outsiders, and also made documentary films. She came from a Welsh-Jewish family, and Jewish experience runs through much of her fiction.
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