• 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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  • Bernice Rubens (1928–2004), Booker Prize-winning Welsh novelist Bernice F. Sisk (1910–1995), American Democratic Congressman from California Bernice,...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Forster 1988 Madame Sousatzka screenplay, adapted from the novel by Bernice Rubens. Directed by John Schlesinger 1990 Mr. and 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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    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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  • 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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  • – 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Death of Janet Frame, Stieg Larsson, Czeslaw Milosz, Jeff Nuttall, Bernice Rubens, Françoise Sagan, Hubert Selby Jr., Susan Sontag 2005 in literature...
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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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  • 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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  • Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965 Verdi excerpt from Rigoletto 15 Jul 1995 Bernice Rubens Richard Strauss Beim Schlafengehen (from 4 Letzte Lieder) Schubert String...
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  • Greer's book The Female Eunuch. Ted Hughes' poetry collection Crow. Bernice Rubens' novel The Elected Member. Mary Wilson's Selected Poems. The complete...
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  • the Amen: Essays after R.S. Thomas Rhys Hughes – The Percolated Stars Bernice Rubens – The Sergeants' Tale Rowan Williams – Poems of Rowan Williams Bobi...
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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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    Josephson Denise Levertov Susan Mendus Michael Moritz Lucy Owen Jon Ronson Bernice Rubens Norman Solomon Lord Stone of Hendon, Dr Sir Joseph Ellis Stone Lord...
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