Eva Figes | |
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Born | Eva Unger ![]() 15 April 1932 ![]() Berlin ![]() |
Died | 28 August 2012 ![]() Greater London ![]() |
Alma mater | Queen Mary College |
Occupation | Novelist, social critic ![]() |
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Eva Figes (/ˈfaɪdʒiːz/; 15 April 1932 – 28 August 2012) was an English author and feminist.[1] Figes wrote novels, literary criticism, studies of feminism, and vivid memoirs relating to her Berlin childhood and later experiences as a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany.