Anita Brookner

1928 - 2016

country of citizenship: United Kingdom

native language: English

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: James Allen's Girls' School, King's College London

occupation: writer, art historian, novelist, university teacher

award received: Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Booker Prize, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Anita Brookner (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016) 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)