Eva Figes

Eva Figes
BornEva Unger 
15 April 1932 
Berlin 
Died28 August 2012  (aged 80)
Greater London 
Alma materQueen Mary College
OccupationNovelist, social critic 
Spouse(s)John George Figes
ChildrenKate Figes
Orlando Figes
Awards

Eva Figes (/ˈfaɪdʒiːz/; née Unger; 15 April 1932 – 28 August 2012) was an English author and feminist. 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.

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