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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Bernice_RubensBernice Rubens - Wikipedia

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   Bernice Rubens (26 July 1923 – 13 October 2004) was a Welsh novelist. She became the first woman to win the Booker Prize in 1970, for The Elected Member.

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3. literature.britishcouncil.org › writer › bernice-rubensBernice Rubens - Literature - British Council

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   Novelist Bernice Rubens was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1928, the daughter of a Russian Jewish father. She read English at the University of Wales. She became a Fellow of the University of Wales in 1982 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1991.

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4. thebookerprizes.com › authors › bernice-rubensBernice Rubens | The Booker Prizes

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   Sep 13, 2004 · Bernice Rubens was the first woman and the only Welsh novelist to win the Booker Prize in 1970 for The Elected Member. She wrote more than 20 novels and one autobiography, exploring themes of family life and Jewishness.

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6. nation.cymru › culture › bernice-rubens-1923-2004Bernice Rubens (1923 – 2004)

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   Sep 10, 2023 · Desmond Clifford celebrates the life and work of Bernice Rubens, the first and only Welsh winner of the Booker Prize. He explores her Jewish and Welsh identity, her prolific and diverse novels, and her memoir of survival and ambiguity.

7. biography.wales › article › s14-REUB-RUT-1923REUBEN, BERNICE RUTH (Bernice Rubens) (1923 - 2004), novelist

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   Jan 24, 2024 · Gender: Female. Occupation: novelist. Area of activity: Literature and Writing. Author: Desmond Clifford. Bernice Rubens was born on 26 July 1923 at 9 Glossop Terrace, Splott, Cardiff, the third of four children of Eli Harold Reuben and his wife Dorothy (née Cohen).

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   Nov 27, 2023 · One of the most captivating and enigmatic novelists of the 20th century, Bernice Rubens remains largely unknown despite her remarkable literary achievements. She was the second recipient of the...

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   Is Bernice Rubens a good writer?

   • In fairness, it is easier to embrace the willing and a larger heart is required to hug the recalcitrant. Bernice Rubens is Wales’ greatest novelist, in either language, but remains strangely unclaimed and uncelebrated. No biography has appeared, no Writers of Wales monograph and there is little in the way of critical interest.

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   Was Bernice Rubens Jewish?

   • She looked very Jewish and in her writing she never shied away from that which she knew best: life in the tight-knit, immigrant Lithuanian-Jewish community in Cardiff where she grew up. Bernice Ruth Rubens was born in Cardiff on July 28, 1928.

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   When did Bernice Rubens die?

   • Her last novel, The Sergeant's Tale (2003), is set in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1947. Bernice Rubens died in October 2004. In the fiction of Bernice Rubens, ‘God is occasionally good’, and allows the full playing out of the human capacity for love, farce, resentment - and evil.

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   Did Bernice Rubens win the Booker Prize?

   • On the centenary of her birth Desmond Clifford celebrates the writing and achievement of Wales’ greatest novelist Bernice Rubens. In spite of winning the Booker Prize in 1970 Bernice Rubens was never truly embraced by Wales’s literary establishment. Or is it because she won the Booker Prize that she is held at a distance?

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10. jwa.org › encyclopedia › articleBernice Rubens | Jewish Women's Archive

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    Bernice Rubens (1928-2004) was a British novelist of Jewish origin who explored themes of family, identity and antisemitism in her works. She won the Booker Prize in 1970 and the Jewish Quarterly/Wingate Award in 1990.