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Anita Brookner

CBE
Born(1928-07-16)16 July 1928
Herne Hill, London, England
Died10 March 2016(2016-03-10) (aged 87)
London, England
Occupation
  • Art historian
  • novelist
Alma materKing's College London
Period1981–2011
GenreDrama
Notable workHotel du Lac

Anita Brookner CBE (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016)[1] 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.

  1. ^ "Anita Brookner, Booker Prize-winning author, dies age 87, Times announces". BBC News. 14 March 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2016.

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Anita Brookner

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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...

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Brookner

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Brookner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Aaron Brookner (born 1981), American film director and screenwriter Anita Brookner (1928–2016)...

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Hotel du Lac

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Hotel du Lac is a 1984 novel by English writer Anita Brookner. It centres on Edith Hope, a romance novelist who is staying in a hotel on the shores of...

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Hanya Yanagihara

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"British writers of a certain age", such as Anita Brookner, Iris Murdoch, and Barbara Pym. Of Pym and Brookner, she says, "there is a suspicion of the craft...

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Anna Massey

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Actress Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner's novel Hotel du Lac, a role that one of her co-stars, Julia McKenzie...

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100 Great Paintings

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Vol. 1, Publ. Edwin Mullins, translated by Wibke von Bonin, Authors: Anita Brookner, Milton Brown, Hugh Casson, Richard Cork, David Hockney, John R. Hale...

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List of winners and nominated authors of the Booker Prize

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Bailey Nina Bawden John Berger Carol Birch William Boyd Melvyn Bragg Anita Brookner NoViolet Bulawayo Graeme Macrae Burnet A. S. Byatt J. L. Carr Jim Crace...

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Incidents in the Rue Laugier

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Incidents in the Rue Laugier is a novel by Anita Brookner, published in 1995 by Jonathan Cape in the UK and by Random House in the USA. In 1996 Penguin...

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The Sense of an Ending

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suspenseful, this compact novel makes every slyly crafted sentence count." Anita Brookner, writing for The Daily Telegraph, said the novel is not a thriller,...

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London Review of Books

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Ashbery Andrew Bacevich Julian Barnes Mary Beard Alan Bennett Tony Blair Anita Brookner Gordon Brown Anne Carson Angela Carter Terry Castle Stanley Cavell Bruce...

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March 10

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politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (b. 1920) 2016 – Anita Brookner, English novelist and art historian (b. 1928) 2022 – John Elliott, English...

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Booker Prize

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1983 J. M. Coetzee Life & Times of Michael K Novel South Africa 1984 Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac Novel United Kingdom 1985 Keri Hulme The Bone People Mystery...

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Herne Hill

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John Braham, singer Horace Brodzky, Australian-born artist and writer Anita Brookner, novelist, winner of the Booker Prize Richard Church, writer and poet...

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Olivier Berggruen

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Institute of Art at the University of London, where he studied with Anita Brookner, who was his advisor. He briefly worked at the auction house Sotheby's...

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1984 in literature

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Simon Brett – A Shock to the System David Brin – The Practice Effect Anita Brookner – Hotel du Lac Tom Clancy – The Hunt for Red October Maryse Condé –...

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Anthony Blunt

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Johnson (an expert on Eugène Delacroix), Phoebe Pool (art historian) and Anita Brookner (an art historian and novelist). Among his many accomplishments, Blunt...

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1928 in literature

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2012) June 28 – Stan Barstow, English novelist (died 2011) July 16 Anita Brookner, English novelist (died 2016) Robert Sheckley, American writer (died...

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1928

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2019) July 16 Bella Davidovich, Soviet-born Jewish-American pianist Anita Brookner, English novelist, art historian (d. 2016) Jim Rathmann, American race...

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List of English novelists

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Emily Brontë (1818–1848), Wuthering Heights Frances Brooke (1724–1789) Anita Brookner (1928–2016), Hotel du Lac Shirley Brooks (1816–1874) Brigid Brophy (1929–1995)...

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List of University of Cambridge people

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(Christ's) E. R. Braithwaite (Caius) Howard Brenton (St Catharine's) Anita Brookner (Murray Edwards), Booker Prize winner F. C. Burnand (Trinity) Samuel...

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Slade Professor of Fine Art

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John Pope-Hennessy (1964) Anthony Blunt (1965) John Summerson (1966) Anita Brookner (1967) Otto Demus (1968) James Sloss Ackerman (1969) Rudolf Wittkower...

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Nicholas Serota

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Institute of Art, London, under the supervision of Michael Kitson and Anita Brookner; his thesis was on the work of J. M. W. Turner. In 1969, Serota became...

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