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Bernice Rubens


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Bernice Rubens was born in Cardiff, Wales in July 1928. She began writing at the age of 35, when her children started nursery school. Her second novel, Madame Sousatzka (1962), was filmed by John Schlesinger filmed with Shirley MacLaine in the leading role in 1988. Her fourth novel, The Elected Member, won the 1970 Booker prize. She was shortlisted for the same prize again in 1978 for A Five Year Sentence. Her last novel, The Sergeants Tale, was published in 2003. She was an honorary vice-president of International PEN and served as a Booker judge in 1986. Bernice Rubens died in 2004 aged 76.
 
 
Novels
   Set on Edge (1960)
   Madame Sousatzka (1962)
   Mate in Three (1966)
   The Elected Member (1969)
     aka The Chosen People
   Sunday Best (1971)
   Go Tell the Lemming (1973)
   I Sent a Letter to My Love (1975)
   Ponsonby Post (1977)
   A Five Year Sentence (1978)
   Spring Sonata (1979)
   Birds of Passage (1981)
   Brothers (1983)
   Favours (1984)
   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)
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Awards
Booker Prize Best Novel winner (1970) : The Elected Member
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1978) : A Five Year Sentence


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