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Anita Brookner (born
16 July 1928) an
English novelist and art historian was born in
Herne Hill, a suburb of
London.
Brookner's father, Newson Bruckner, was a
Polish immigrant, and her mother, Maude Schiska, was a singer whose father had emigrated from
Poland and founded a tobacco factory. Maude changed the family's surname to Brookner owing to anti-
German sentiment in
England. Anita Brookner had a lonely childhood, although her grandmother and uncle lived with the family, and her parents, secular Jews, opened their house to Jewish refugees escaping
Nazi persecution during the
1930s and
World War II. Brookner, an only child, has never married and took care of her parents as they aged.
Brookner was educated at
James Allen's Girls' School. She received a BA in History from
King's College London in
1949, and a doctorate in Art History from the
Courtauld Institute of Art in
1953. In
1967 she became the first woman to hold the
Slade professorship at
Cambridge University. She was promoted to Reader at the
Courtauld Institute of Art in
1977, where she worked until her retirement in
1988. Brookner was made a
CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in
1990. She is a Fellow of New Hall,
Cambridge.
Works
Brookner published her first novel,
A Start In Life, in
1981 at the age of 53. Since then she's published approximately a novel every year. Her fourth book,
Hotel du Lac, published in
1984, won the
Booker Prize.
Brookner is highly regarded as a stylist. Her fiction, which has been heavily influenced by her own life experiences, explores themes of isolation, emotional loss and difficulties associated with fitting into English society. Her novels typically depict intellectual, middle-class women, who suffer isolation, emotional loss and disappointments in love. Many of Brookner's characters are the children of European immigrants who experience difficulties with fitting into English life; a number of characters appear to be of Jewish descent.
Bibliography
- A Start in Life (1981), published in the United States as The Debut
- Providence (1982)
- Look at Me (1983)
- Hotel du Lac (1984) (Won the Booker Prize)
- 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), published in the United States as Dolly
- 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)
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