Eva Figes

Eva Figes (born April 15 1932) is an English author.

Figes has written 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. She arrived in Britain in 1939 with her parents and a younger brother. Figes is now resident in northern London and is the mother of the writers Orlando Figes and Kate Figes.

Her fiction has stylistic similarities with the writings of Virginia Woolf. The 1983 novel, "Light", is a lucid, impressionistic portrait of a day in the life of Claude Monet from sunrise to sunset. Her son is renowned historian Orlando Figes.

Selected bibliography

Fiction

*"Equinox" (1966)
*"Winter Journey" (1967)
*"B" (1972)
*"Konek Landing" (1972)
*"Days" (1974)
*"Nelly's Version" (1977)
*"Waking" (1981)
*"Light" (1983)
*"The Seven Ages: A Novel" (1986)
*"Ghosts" (1988)
*"The Tenancy" (1993)
*"The Knot" (1996)
*"The Tree of Knowledge" (1998)
*"Nelly's Version" (2002)

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)