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Bernice Rubens
Bernice Rubens (July 26, 1928 - October 13, 2004) was a Booker Prize-winning Welsh novelist.

Background
She was born in Cardiff, Wales, of Russian Jewish descent. She came from a very musical family, both her brothers becoming well-known classical musicians. She was married to Rudi Nassauer, a wine merchant and novelist. They had two daughters, Rebecca and Sharon.

Films
Her 1962 novel, Madame Sousatzka was made into a film in 1988, with Shabana Azmi and Shirley MacLaine.

Her 1975 novel, I Sent a Letter To My Love was made into a film (Ma Chere Inconnue) in 1980 by Moshe Mizraki, starring Simone Signoret and Jean Rochefort.

Works

• Set on Edge (1960)
• Madame Sousatzka (1962)
• Mate in Three (1966)
• The Elected Member (1969) (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)