Bernice Rubens ( born Bernice Rubens ; July 26, 1928 , Cardiff - October 13, 2004 , Camden ) - Welsh English-language writer, screenwriter and director, Booker Prize laureate for the novel "Selected Member".
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| Date of Birth | July 26, 1928 |
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| Date of death | October 13, 2004 (aged 76) |
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| Citizenship |  Great Britain |
| Occupation | prose writer |
| Language of Works | and |
| Awards | Booker Prize ( 1970 ) |
| Awards | Booker Prize ( 1970 ) |
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Biography
Bernice Rubens was born in Cardiff ( Wales ) in 1928. Her father, Eli Rubens, was a Jew from Lithuania, who in 1900, at the age of 16, decided to leave the European continent in the hope of starting a new life in New York. Deceived when buying a ticket, he did not get to America and decided to stay in Wales. In Cardiff, he met Dorothy Cohen, an emigrant from Poland, and married her. Bernice was one of four children and grew up in a musical family. Her two brothers Harold and Cyril became famous violinists. Harold was later forced to stop playing for health reasons, and Cyril became a violinist at the London Symphony Orchestra . Bernice did not follow her family’s musical traditions, although she later played the piano and cello. She graduated from Cardiff High School for Girls, then studied English and Literature at the University of Wales, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947. She married Rudi Nassauer , a wine merchant and novelist. They had two daughters, Rebecca and Sharon.
From 1950 to 1955 she taught at a school in Birmingham before moving to the film industry, where she produced documentaries. In 1960, they owned 10 Compayne Gardens, NW3, where the poet John Silkin rented an attic floor and subleased rooms for David Mercer, who was to become the prolific playwright of the West End and TV, and Malcolm Ross-MacDonald was subsequently a prolific writer of historical novels.
Bernice Rubens' first novel, Oskomina, was published in 1960.
Based on her 1962 novel “Madame Suzatska”, in 1988 a film of the same name was put with Shirley MacLane and Shabana Azmi in the lead roles.
In 1980, her 1975 novel “I sent a letter to my love” filmed Moshe Mizrahi called “Dear Stranger,” starring Simone Signoret and Jean Rochefort .
Her 1985 novel, Mr. Wakefield's Crusade, was adapted for BBC television in 1992, starring Peter Capaldi and Michael Maloney.
Artwork
- Oskomin (1960)
- Madame Suzacka (1962)
- Checkmate in three (1966)
- The Chosen People (1969)
- Elected Member (1969) (Booker Prize 1970)
- Sunday Best (1971)
- / Go Tell the Lemming (1973)
- I sent a letter to my beloved (1975)
- / The Ponsonby Post (1977)
- Five year term (1978)
- Spring Sonata (1979)
- Migratory Birds (1981)
- Brothers (1983)
- Mr. Wakefield's Crusade (1985)
- Our Father (1987)
- / Kingdom Come (1990)
- Solitary Woe (1991)
- Mother Russia (1992)
- / Autobiopsy (1993)
- Hijack (1993)
- / Yesterday in the Back Lane (1995)
- Waiting for the game (1997)
- Me, Dreyfus (1999)
- Milwaukee (2001)
- Nine Lives (2002)
- The Tale of the Sergeant (2003)
- / When I Grow Up (2005)
Notes
- ↑ Blain V. , Grundy I. , Clements P. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English : Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present - 1990. - P. 929.
Links
- Bernice Rubens - The Times
- Bernice Rubens - The Daily Telegraph
- Bernice Rubens - The Independent