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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, 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 · 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 · Brookner was a first-generation Britisher — the only child of Polish Jews, born in 1928 — a position advantageous (or so I’ve long thought) for the writer of fiction. The child of...
Mar 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 disappointed lives,...
Mar 23, 2016 · Anita Brookner’s wry, elegant world of disappointed women. In this age of crass self-promotion, the late Booker-winner’s ability to capture life’s quiet battles makes her required reading.
Mar 15, 2016 · Booker prize-winning author and art historian Anita Brookner died on March 15, 2016, aged 87. The bestselling novelist, who won the 1984 award for Hotel Du Lac, lived a reclusive life in her...
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