Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and after holding a post as a professor at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris, she worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. In 1984, she won the Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner published a number of volumes of art criticism. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990. She died in 2016 at the age of 87.

Miss Brookner's most absorbing novel . . . graceful and attractive

1. 4/5

   Lågmäld men talande

   Anita Brookner skriver fantastiskt vackert om ensamma människor som inte riktigt passar in och som inte förstår det social spelet.

   Grace

   25 november 2022

Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and after holding a post as a professor at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris, she worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. In 1984, she won the Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner published a number of volumes of art criticism. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990. She died in 2016 at the age of 87.

Miss Brookner's most absorbing novel . . . graceful and attractive

1. 4/5

   Lågmäld men talande

   Anita Brookner skriver fantastiskt vackert om ensamma människor som inte riktigt passar in och som inte förstår det social spelet.

   Grace

   25 november 2022

Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and after holding a post as a professor at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris, she worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. In 1984, she won the Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner published a number of volumes of art criticism. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990. She died in 2016 at the age of 87.

Miss Brookner's most absorbing novel . . . graceful and attractive

1. 4/5

   Lågmäld men talande

   Anita Brookner skriver fantastiskt vackert om ensamma människor som inte riktigt passar in och som inte förstår det social spelet.

   Grace

   25 november 2022