Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner (born July 16, 1928) is an English novelist and art historian born in London. Educated at King's College London, in 1967 she became the first woman to hold the Slade professorship at Cambridge University. Since 1977, she has been associated with the Courtauld Institute of Art. However, since winning the Booker Prize in 1984 for Hotel du Lac, she has become better known as a novelist, publishing on the average a novel a year.
Her fiction is mostly set in London, and often involves characters of Jewish extraction, like herself. Her works explore the alienation of a character, usually female, whose quiet, solitary lives are punctuated by destitution and disappointments in love. Her style has often borne her comparisons with Jane Austen and Henry James.
Bibliography:
- A Start in Life (1981)
- Providence (1982)
- Look at Me (1983)
- Hotel du Lac (1984) Booker Prize WINNER
- Family and Friends (1985)
- A Misalliance (1986)
- A Friend from England (1987)
- Latecomers (1988)
- Lewis Percy (1989)
- Brief Lives (1990)
- A Closed Eye (1991)
- Fraud (1992)
- A Family Romance (1993)
- A Private View (1994)
- Incidents in the Rue Laugier (1995)
- Altered States (1996)
- Visitors (1997)
- Falling Slowly (1998)
- Undue Influence (1999)
- The Bay of Angels (2001)
- The Next Big Thing (2002) Long Listed for the Booker Prize.
- The Rules of Engagement (2003)
- Leaving Home (2005)