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 north London and is the mother of the academic Orlando Figes and writer Kate Figes.

In the 1960s she was associated with an informal group of experimental British writers influenced by Rayner Heppenstall, that included Stefan Themerson, Ann Quin and its informal leader, B. S. Johnson.

Figes' 1983 novel, Light, is an impressionistic portrait of a single day in the life of Claude Monet from sunrise to sunset.

Selected bibliography

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)