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((Short description|Welsh novelist (1923–2004)))
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'''Bernice Rubens''' (26 July 1923 – 13 October 2004)<ref name="ODNB">((cite ODNB|id=94398|title=Rubens, Bernice (1923–2004)|last=Cunningham|first=Valentine|year=2008))</ref> was a Welsh novelist.<ref name="obit">((cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/oct/14/guardianobituaries.books|title=Bernice Rubens: Booker-winning novelist whose work focused on the more disturbing aspects of human behaviour|first=Janet|last=Watts|publisher=Guardian.co.uk|date=14 October 2004|access-date=1 December 2012))</ref> She became the first woman to win the [[Booker Prize]] in 1970, for ''[[The Elected Member]]''.

==Personal history==
Bernice Ruth Reuben was born in [[Splott]], Cardiff, Wales, on 26 July 1923, the third of four children of Eli Reuben and his wife Dorothy, ((nee|Cohen)).<ref name="ODNB"/> Her father was a [[Lithuanian Jew]] who, at the age of 16, left mainland Europe in 1900 in the hope of starting a new life in [[New York City]]. Due to being swindled by a ticket tout, he never reached the United States, his passage taking him no further than [[Cardiff]].<ref name="obit"/> He decided to stay in [[Wales]], and there he met and married Dorothy Cohen, whose Polish family had also emigrated to Cardiff.

Bernice was one of four children and came from a musical family, both her brothers, [[Harold Rubens|Harold]] and Cyril, becoming well-known classical musicians. Her sister Beryl was a prestigious viola and violin teacher. Harold was forced to quit playing through illness, but Cyril (1926-1996) became a violinist in the [[London Symphony Orchestra]].<ref name="obit"/> Bernice failed to follow in her family's musical tradition, though she would later learn the  cello. She was educated at [[Cardiff High School for Girls]] and later read English at the [[Cardiff University|University of Wales, Cardiff]], where she was awarded her BA in 1947.<ref>((cite web|url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rubens-bernice|title=Bernice Rubens|access-date=1 December 2012|first=Hephzibah |last=Anderson|publisher=Jwa.org))</ref>

She married [[Rudolf Nassauer]], a wine merchant who also wrote poetry and fiction.<ref name="obit"/> They had two daughters, Rebecca and Sharon. From 1950 to 1955, Rubens taught at a [[grammar school]] in [[Birmingham]], before moving onto the film industry where she made documentaries. In the 1960s the poet [[Jon Silkin]] rented the attic storey of their London house and sublet rooms to [[David Mercer (playwright)|David Mercer]], later a prolific [[West End theatre|West End]] and TV playwright, and Malcolm Ross-Macdonald, later an equally prolific writer of [[Historical fiction|historical novels]].

==Professional career as a writer==
Rubens' first novel, ''Set On Edge'', was published in 1960. In 1970, she became the first woman to win the [[Booker Prize]] (the second year of the prize's existence), for her novel ''[[The Elected Member]]''.<ref>((cite web|author=James Kidd |url=http://www.scmp.com/article/539083/brief-history-man-booker-prize |title=A Brief History of The Man Booker Prize &#124; South China Morning Post |publisher=Scmp.com |date=2014-01-24 |access-date=2014-02-09))</ref> As of 2021, Rubens is still the only Welsh author to have won the Booker Prize.<ref>((cite web |title=Books ((!)) The Booker Prizes |url=https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books?decade_date=1&author_alpha=1&field_winner_in_year=2 |website=thebookerprizes.com |language=en))</ref>

==Adaptations==
Her 1962 novel, ''[[Madame Sousatzka]]'', was made into a film in 1988, with [[Shabana Azmi]] and [[Shirley MacLaine]]. This book was based on the experiences of her brother [[Harold Rubens]], a child prodigy pianist, and his teacher [[Maria Levinskaya|Madame Maria Levinskaya]] (died 1960) who inspired the character of Madame Sousatzka.<ref>Allis, Michael. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=68QwBwAAQBAJ&dq=Maria+Levinskaya&pg=PA56 Temporaries and Eternals: The Music Criticism of Aldous Huxley]'' (2013), p. 56</ref> Harold Rubens was born in Cardiff in 1918, and studied with Levinskaya from the age of seven. The musical ''Sousatzka'' was produced in Toronto in 2017. It was intended to be a pre-Broadway tryout for controversial producer Garth Drabinsky. [[Victoria Clark]] portrayed the title role.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/what-do-critics-think-of-the-new-musical-sousatzka|title=What Do Critics Think of the New Musical ''Sousatzka''?|first=Andrew|last=Gans|date=March 27, 2017|website=Playbill))</ref> 

Her 1975 novel, ''I Sent a Letter To My Love'', was made into a film (''[[:fr:Chère inconnue|Chère inconnue]]'') in 1980 by Moshe Mizraki, starring [[Simone Signoret]] and [[Jean Rochefort]].

Her 1985 novel, ''Mr Wakefield's Crusade'', was adapted for television by the BBC in 1992, starring [[Peter Capaldi]] and [[Michael Maloney]].

==Works==
* ''Set on Edge'' (1960)
* ''Madame Sousatzka'' (1962) (filmed as ''[[Madame Sousatzka]]'')
* ''Mate in Three'' (1966)
* ''Chosen People'' (1969)
* ''[[The Elected Member]]'' (1969) ([[Booker Prize|Booker Prize for Fiction]] 1970)
* ''Sunday Best'' (1971)
* ''Go Tell the Lemming'' (1973)
* ''I Sent a Letter To My Love'' (1975)
* ''The Ponsonby Post'' (1977)
* ''A Five-Year Sentence'' (1978)
* ''Spring Sonata'' (1979)
* ''Birds of Passage'' (1981)
* ''Brothers'' (1983)
* ''Mr Wakefield's Crusade'' (1985)
* ''Our Father'' (1987)
* ''Kingdom Come'' (1990)
* ''[[A Solitary Grief]]'' (1991)
* ''Mother Russia'' (1992)
* ''Autobiopsy'' (1993)
* ''Hijack'' (1993)
* ''Yesterday in the Back Lane'' (1995)
* ''The Waiting Game'' (1997)
* ''I, Dreyfus'' (1999)
* ''Milwaukee'' (2001)
* ''Nine Lives'' (2002)
* ''The Sergeants' Tale'' (2003)
* ''When I Grow Up'' (2005)

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* ((IMDb name|id=0747885|name=Bernice Rubens))
* [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/bernice-rubens-543783.html  Bernice Rubens obituary] – ''[[The Independent]]''

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