Eva Figes (April 15, 1932 - August 28, 2012) was an English writer. Figes wrote novels, literary criticism, essays on feminism, and memoirs relating her childhood in Berlin and her experiences in a Jewish Nazi refuge in Germany ruled by Hitler. He arrived in the United Kingdom in 1939 with his parents and his younger brother. Figesse resided in North London and had two children, academic Orlando Figes and writer Kate Figes. During the 1960s he was associated with the informal group of British experimental writers influenced by Rayner Heppenstall, which included Stefan Themerson, Ann Quin and his informal leader B. S. Johnson. Figes fiction has some similarities with the writings of Virginia Woolf. His 1983 novel, Light, is an impressionist portrait of a single day in the life of Claude Monet from sunrise to sunset.