Bernice Rubens, first woman to win Booker, honoured with Cardiff plaque

Scholars and politicians to attend unveiling of memorial at family home of only Welsh winner of literary prize

She was the first woman to be awarded the Booker prize and remains the only Welsh winner, but until now there has been no memorial to the achievements of Bernice Rubens.

On Friday a plaque will be unveiled honouring Rubens, who died in 2004, at her family home in the Roath area of Cardiff at a ceremony attended by literature scholars and politicians.