Eva Figes

15 April 1932 - 28 August 2012

EF , a seriously experimental novelist, also published short stories, children's books, literary criticism, social commentary, and translations, especially of French and German fiction.

BirthName: Eva Unger
Married: Figes

Milestones

15 April 1932

Eva Unger (later EF ) was born in Berlin, the elder of two children.

“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.

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June 1970

EF published her important work of polemical feminist critique, Patriarchal Attitudes: Women in Society.

British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.

1973

Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

10 August 2007

EF 's final book, Journey to Nowhere, was part memoir, part political polemic.

Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

28 August 2012

EF suffered heart failure and died at the age of eighty at her London home.

Tucker, Eva. “Eva Figes obituary”. The Guardian, 7 Sept. 2012.

Kaufman, Leslie. “Eva Figes, Author and Feminist, Dies at 80”. The New York Times, 16 Sept. 2012.

Biography

Birth and Family

15 April 1932

Eva Unger (later EF ) was born in Berlin, the elder of two children.

“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.

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