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Splott author Bernice Rubens: The first ever female Booker Prize Winner
Bernice Ruth Rubens, the first female recipient of the coveted Booker Prize, was born right here in Splott on July 26th in 1928. Her father, Eli Rubens, was a Lithuanian Jew who had fled anti-Semitism and boarded a ship to New York, or so he thought. In fact, he had been tricked and was told […]