Booker Prize winner bernice Rubens dies aged 76


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Booker Prize winner bernice Rubens dies aged 76

Posted on 14/10/2004

The Booker winning author Bernice Rubens died yesterday, aged 76. Her agent Charles Walker said: 'she was writing, writing, writing up to the final weeks of her life'. She had recently 'more or less' finished her memoir and had been in hopsital since suffering a stroke a fortnight ago.

She had published 2 novels in the last 3 years, the most recent being The Seargeant's Tale, and worked as a documentary filmmaker. She won her Booker prize in 1970 for The Elected Member, in a year which included Iris Murdoch and William Trevor.

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