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Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner

Novelist and art historian
Anita Brookner CBE was an English novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded the 1984... Wikipedia
Died: March 10, 2016 (age 87 years), London, United Kingdom
Awards: Booker Prize
Notable work: Hotel du Lac
Period: 1981–2011

Anita Brookner CBE (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016) was an English novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of ...
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Mar 14, 2016 · Novelist best known for Hotel du Lac, and a gifted historian of French art.
Mar 18, 2016 · Anita Brookner was too easily mistaken for her unhappy spinster heroines, but the Booker winner was a novelist of peerless wit and insight, ...
Anita Brookner published her first novel, A Start In Life in 1981. Her most notable novel, her fourth, Hotel du Lac won the Man Booker Prize in 1984.
Mar 15, 2016 · Her final work of fiction, “At the Hairdressers,” was a novella published as an e-book in 2011. It tells the story of an 80-year-old woman who ...
Mar 6, 2024 · Brookner specialized in French art and wrote several books of criticism, notably The Genius of the Future: Studies in French Art Criticism (1971) ...
Mar 1, 2018 · Fraud A woman of a certain age goes missing. This beautiful book isn't a thriller but a fantasy for anyone who's dreamed of leaving an ...
Novelist and art historian Art historian and novelist. An authority on 18th-century painting, she was the first woman Slade Professor at Cambridge from 1967 ...
Anita Brookner works in an office at the Courtauld Institute filled with books and pictures of French paintings, a desk strewn with papers, and an old ...
Mar 10, 2016 · Anita Brookner's Booker Prize-winning novel focuses on a novelist who has taken refuge from life in a hotel on the misty shores of Lake Geneva.