Eva Figes is an English

England

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 author

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Figes has written novels, literary criticism

Literary criticism

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, studies of feminism

Feminism

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, and vivid memoirs relating to her Berlin

Berlin

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 childhood and later experiences as a Jewish refugee

Refugee

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 from Hitler's Germany

Nazi Germany

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. She arrived in Britain in 1939 with her parents and a younger brother. Figes is now resident in north London

London

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 and is the mother of the academic Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes is a British historian of Russia, and Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London.-Overview:Figes is the son of the feminist writer Eva Figes. His sister is the author and editor Kate Figes. He attended William Ellis School in north London from 1971-78...

 and writer Kate Figes.

In the 1960s she was associated with an informal group of experimental British writers influenced by Rayner Heppenstall

Rayner Heppenstall

John Rayner Heppenstall was a British novelist, poet, diarist, and a BBC radio producer.-Early life:...

, that included Stefan Themerson

Stefan Themerson

Stefan Themerson was a Polish, later British poet, novelist, film-maker, composer and philosopher.-Early life:Stefan Themerson was born in Płock in what was then the Russian Empire on 25 January 1910 and died in London on 6 September 1988....

, Ann Quin

Ann quin

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 and its informal leader, B. S. Johnson

B. S. Johnson

B. S. Johnson was an English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic, producer of television programmes and film-maker.-Biography:...

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Figes's fiction has certain similarities with the writings of Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century....

. The 1983 novel, Light, is an impressionistic portrait of a single day in the life of Claude Monet

Claude Monet

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from sunrise to sunset.

Fiction

• Equinox (1966)
• Winter Journey (1967)
• Konek Landing (1969)
• B (1972)
• Days (1974)
• Nelly's Version (1977)
• Waking (1981)
• Light (1983)
• The Seven Ages: A Novel (1986)
• Ghosts (1988)
• The Tree of Knowledge (1990)
• The Tenancy (1993)
• The Knot (1996)

Literary and social criticism

• Patriarchal Attitudes: Women in Society (1970)
• Tragedy and Social Evolution (1982)
• Sex and Subterfuge: Women Writers to 1850 (1982)
• Women's Letters in Wartime, 1450-1945 (1993)

Memoirs

• Little Eden: A Child in Wartime (1978)
• Tales of Innocence and Experience: An Exploration (2004)
• Journey to Nowhere (2008)