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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 Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded the 1984 Booker–McConnell Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac.
Apr 18, 2024 · Anita Brookner (born July 16, 1928, London, England—died March 10, 2016) was an English art historian and author who presented a bleak view of life in her fiction, much of which deals with the loneliness experienced by middle-aged women who meet romantically unsuitable men and feel a growing sense of alienation from society.
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Mar 10, 2016 · July 16, 1928. Died. March 10, 2016. Genre. Literature & Fiction, Art. edit data. 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. Her novel, The Next Big Thing was longlisted (alongside John Banville's, Shroud) in 2002 for the Man Booker Prize.
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Mar 1, 2018 · Those of us dismayed by lists of successful people under 30 should take heart. In the ensuing 28 years, she published 23 more (and one slim novella). Learning these facts from Brookner’s ...
Mar 15, 2016 · March 15, 2016. LONDON — Anita Brookner, a British author of lean, elegiac and stylistically polished novels who was once labeled the “mistress of gloom” for her depiction of bleak and...
Jun 23, 2021 · Anita Brookner was a British art historian and novelist who won the Booker Prize in 1984. She explored themes of alienation, identity, and loss in her works, often with subtle references to her Jewish background and heritage.
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Dr Anita Brookner - Literature. Drama. Fiction. Non-Fiction. Born: London, England. Publishers: Jonathan Cape Ltd. Agents: A. M. Heath & Co Ltd. Biography. Novelist and art historian, Dr Anita Brookner, was born in London on 16 July 1928. She studied at King's College, London and at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
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