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Anita Brookner (1928–2016)

Author of Hotel du Lac

Includes the names: Brookner a, A. Brookner, Anita Brooker, Anita Broonker, Anita Brookner, Anita Brookner, Anita; Anita Brookner Brookner

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Works by Anita Brookner
Hotel du Lac 2,249 copies, 80 reviews
Look at Me 476 copies, 12 reviews
A Start in Life 446 copies, 15 reviews
Family and Friends 414 copies, 4 reviews
The Misalliance 380 copies, 2 reviews
A Friend from England 353 copies, 3 reviews
Latecomers 339 copies, 3 reviews
Brief Lives 315 copies, 3 reviews
Fraud 296 copies, 10 reviews
Providence 295 copies, 5 reviews
Undue Influence 294 copies, 4 reviews
Altered States 279 copies, 3 reviews
A Closed Eye 279 copies, 5 reviews
Incidents in the Rue Laugier 279 copies, 6 reviews
The Rules of Engagement 275 copies, 9 reviews
The Bay of Angels 275 copies, 9 reviews
Leaving Home 260 copies, 12 reviews
Lewis Percy 259 copies, 5 reviews
Visitors: A Novel 258 copies, 7 reviews
A Family Romance 257 copies, 2 reviews
Falling Slowly 254 copies, 4 reviews
The Next Big Thing 248 copies, 6 reviews
Strangers 231 copies, 19 reviews
A Private View 216 copies, 2 reviews
Soundings 43 copies
Watteau 35 copies, 1 review
At the Hairdresser's 16 copies, 1 review
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Also by Anita Brookner
The House of Mirth (Introduction, some editions) 8,125 copies, 178 reviews
The Reef (Introduction, some editions) 704 copies, 9 reviews
The Constant Nymph (Introduction, some editions) 325 copies, 9 reviews
Troy Chimneys (Introduction, some editions) 158 copies, 7 reviews
The Stories of Edith Wharton (Introduction, some editions) 54 copies, 1 review
The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton (Introduction, some editions) 54 copies
Granta 13: After the Revolution (Contributor) 39 copies
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1880 (Foreword, some editions) 13 copies
Hotel du Lac [1986 film] (Original novel) 12 copies, 1 review
Gauguin (Translator, some editions) 1 copy
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Date of birth
1928-07-16
Date of death
2016-03-10
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Gender
female
Nationality
England
UK
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Herne Hill, London, England, UK
Place of death
Cause of death
Places of residence
London, England, UK
Paris, France
Education
James Allen's Girls School, UK
King's College, London
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
Occupations
art historian
university professor
novelist
Relationships
Organizations
Courtauld Institute of Art
University of London
University of Cambridge
Reading University
Awards and honors
Order of the British Empire (Commander ∙ 1990)
University of London (Fellow ∙ King's College)
Agents
A. M. Heath & Co
Short biography
Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and 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. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.
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