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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 northern London and is the mother of the writers Orlando Figes and Kate Figes. Her fiction has stylistic similarities with the writings of Virginia Woolf. The 1983 novel, Light, is a lucid, impressionistic portrait of a day in the life of Claude Monet from sunrise to sunset.
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