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Anita Brookner

English novelist and art historian (1928-2016) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 87

Anita Brookner 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.

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Awards

Commander of the Order of the British Empire1990
Booker Prize1984
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

About this person

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1928 to 2016 · aged 87

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