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BERNICE Rubens, the award winning author and film director, has died in London, aged 76. She had suffered a severe stroke two weeks earlier. She published more than 20 novels ranging from Set On Edge (1960) to The Sergeant's Tale (2003). Before her illness she had finished an early draft of a memoir. Of her work methods she had observed, "I don't love writing but I love having written."
Born in Cardiff, the third of four children to Eli Rubens, a Lithuanian Jew, and Dorothy Cohen, whose family had come from Poland, she went to school in Cardiff and read English at the University of Wales. She taught English in Birmingham from 1950- 1955, then began to make film documentaries. A visit to native faith- healers in Java led to an abhorrence of the profiteering psychotherapeutic industry, a loathing shared by the narrator of Nine Lives (2002) who kills nine "shrinks" and, by accident, a dentist.See the full content of this document
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Bernice Rubens
In 1947 she married Rudi Nassbauer, a wine merchant from Germany. They had two daughters. Twenty-three years later, he left afte...
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