• 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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  • the trade of German wine. In 1947, Nassauer married Welsh novelist Bernice Rubens, with whom he had three children. The couple became friends with various...
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  • Prawer Jhabvala. It is based upon the 1962 novel of the same name by Bernice Rubens. Indian immigrant Sushila Sen (Shabana Azmi) lives in London with her...
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  • the field of aging Bernice Petkere (1901–2000), American songwriter dubbed the "Queen of Tin Pan Alley" by Irving Berlin Bernice Rubens (1928–2004), Booker...
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    Frank Kermode and David Farrer. In 1970, the prize's second year, Bernice Rubens became the first woman to win the Booker Prize, for The Elected Member...
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  • grandson of Peter Paul Rubens Alma Rubens (1897–1931), American actor Arnold Frans Rubens (1687–1719), a Flemish painter Bernice Rubens (1928–2004), Welsh...
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  • Parks Caryl Phillips Julian Rathbone Mordecai Richler Arundhati Roy Bernice Rubens Donal Ryan Sunjeev Sahota Will Self Carol Shields David Storey Elizabeth...
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  • A Solitary Grief (category Novels by Bernice Rubens)
    A Solitary Grief (1991) is a novel by Bernice Rubens about a Harley Street doctor who cannot cope with his own life. Increasingly alienated from his wife...
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  • The Elected Member (category Novels by Bernice Rubens)
    The Elected Member is a novel by Welsh writer Bernice Rubens. It won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1970. The novel's main character is Norman Zweck,...
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  • 2023). "The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 10: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens – the first woman to win the Booker Prize". The Booker Prizes. Retrieved...
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  • his sister Bernice Rubens, "exhausted all the local teachers", Harold began travelling to London to study with Madame Maria Levinskaya. Bernice, a Booker...
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  • Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (b. 1915) 2004 – Bernice Rubens, Welsh author (b. 1928) 2005 – Vivian Malone Jones, American activist...
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  • Gioachino Rossini Anthony Burgess: Mozart & the Wolf Gang (1991) Harold Rubens Bernice Rubens: Madame Souzatzka (1962) (as Manek) Anton Rubinstein George Eliot:...
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    and starring in the musical I Sent a Letter to My Love based on the Bernice Rubens novel of the same name. In 1990, Manchester could be heard performing...
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  • glamorous musical "at homes" soon became famous. The Welsh novelist Bernice Rubens used her as the model for Madame Sousatzka in the 1962 novel (and subsequent...
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  • School in Hampstead, London, where his English teacher was briefly Bernice Rubens. A former teacher and then an educational psychologist, he has had a...
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    Forster 1988 Madame Sousatzka screenplay, adapted from the novel by Bernice Rubens. Directed by John Schlesinger 1990 Mr. & Mrs. Bridge screenplay, adapted...
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  • TV series NBC Hayden Rorke Dr. Alistair Crown A Solitary Grief novel Bernice Rubens Dr. Andrey Yefimitch Ragin   "Ward No. 6" short story Anton Chekhov...
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  • – Jan Berenstain, American author and illustrator (d. 2012) 1923 – Bernice Rubens, Welsh author (d. 2004) 1923 – Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player...
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    depiction considerably departs from the actual historical circumstances. Bernice Rubens also depicted a fictionalized version of the event in her novel The...
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  • Danish actress. Nirupa Roy, 73, Indian film actress, heart attack. Bernice Rubens, 76, British Booker Prize-winning novelist (The Elected Member), complications...
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    Rushdie — The Satanic Verses (1989) Josephine Hart — Damage (1991) Bernice Rubens — A Solitary Grief (1991) Barbara Vine — King Solomon's Carpet (1991)...
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  • Isis The Lowlife, Alexander Baron Narrator Isis The Sergeant's Tale, Bernice Rubens Narrator BBC Audio The Match King, Frank Partnoy Narrator BBC Audio...
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  • a programme about the writer Bernice Rubens and featuring extract readings by Siân Phillips and interviews with Rubens herself and other writers. In...
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  • 0°10′56″W / 51.5463°N 0.1822°W / 51.5463; -0.1822), the house of Bernice Rubens, who later won the Booker Prize, and her husband Rudolf Nassauer, also...
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  • (1979) nonfiction by Michael J. Piore Birds of Passage (1981) novel by Bernice Rubens Birds of Passage (1983) novel by Brian Castro Bird of Passage: Recollections...
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  • Harper's Bazaar, Financial Times, Elle, Washington Post and others. Bernice Rubens, novelist Miri Rubin (born 1956), historian and Professor of Medieval...
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  • Green Was My Valley Stephen Maybery (born 1949) Jean Rhys (1890–1979) Bernice Rubens, author of A Solitary Grief Howard Spring (1889–1965) Daniel Owen (1836–1895)...
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  • Booker Prize 1969–79 1969: P. H. Newby (Something to Answer For) 1970: Bernice Rubens (The Elected Member) 1970 Lost Prize: J. G. Farrell (Troubles) 1971:...
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  • Member of Parliament (MP) Brian Josephson – physicist and Nobel laureate Bernice Rubens – author Sarah Lark – West End performer, BBC's "I'd do anything" Finalist...
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