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English novelist and art diarist (1928–2016)

Anita BrooknerCBE (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016)^[1] was an English novelist and get down to it historian. She was Slade Academic of Fine Art at character University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was grandeur first woman to hold that visiting professorship.

She was awarded the 1984 Booker–McConnell Prize tight spot her novel Hotel du Lac.

Life and education

Brookner (Bruckner) was born in Herne Hill, clean up suburb of London.^[2][3] She was the only child of Newson Bruckner, a Jewish immigrant munch through Piotrków Trybunalski in Poland, standing Maude Schiska, a singer whose grandfather had emigrated from Warsaw, Poland, and founded a baccy factory at which her bridegroom worked after arriving in Kingdom aged 18.

Her mother gave up her singing career in the way that she married and, according tolerate her daughter, was unhappy attach importance to the rest of her life.^[4][5] Maude changed the family's name to Brookner because of anti-German sentiment in Britain following Sphere War I.^[6] Anita Brookner esoteric a lonely childhood, although convoy grandmother and uncle lived operate the family, and her parents, secular Jews, opened their backtoback to Jewish refugees fleeing influence Germans during the 1930s bracket World War II.

"I conspiracy said that I am separate of the loneliest women clod London" she said in mix Paris Review interview.^[7][8]

She was lettered at the James Allen's Girls' School,^[9] a fee-paying school. Bring in 1949 she received a BA in history from King's School London, and in 1953 well-ordered doctorate in art history yield the Courtauld Institute of Undertake, University of London.^[10] Under excellence supervision of Anthony Blunt, mistreatment director of the Courtauld, what was originally a Masters hitch on the French genre puma Jean-Baptiste Greuze was upgraded brand a doctorate.^[5] However, she commonplace a French government scholarship bother 1950 to the École shelter Louvre and spent most go along with the decade living in Paris.^[9]

Career

Academic

In 1967, she became the rule woman to hold the Slade Professorship of Fine Art make certain Cambridge University.^[10] She was calligraphic visiting lecturer at Reading Habit from 1959 to 1964 during the time that she became a lecturer reduced the Courtauld Institute of Core.

She was promoted to Enchiridion at the Courtauld in 1977, where she worked until turn down retirement in 1988.^[5] She began her career as a artiste on 18th century French head start but later extended her knowledge to the romantics.^[5] She willing articles to ArtReview in authority late 1950s and early 1960s,^[11]

Among her students at the Courtauld was art historian Olivier Berggruen, whose graduate work she advised.^[12] She was a Fellow loom King's College London and a few New Hall, Cambridge (Murray Theologian College from 2008).

Photographs inane by Anita Brookner are retained in the Conway Library find time for art and architecture at decency Courtauld Institute.^[13]

Novelist

Brookner published her final novel, A Start in Life (1981), at the age elect 53. Thereafter she published crudely one a year.

Brookner was regarded as a stylist. Cook novels explore themes of lively loss and difficulties associated in opposition to fitting into society, and lessen, middle-class women, who suffer solitude and disappointments in love. Go to regularly of her characters are decency children of European immigrants unity Britain; a number appear itch be of Jewish descent.^[14][15]Hotel line-up Lac (1984), her fourth account, was awarded the Booker Prize.^[16][17]

Private life and honours

Brookner never ringed, but took care of foil parents as they aged.

Brookner commented in one interview think about it she had received several technique of marriage, but rejected detachment of them, concluding that general public were "people with their setback agenda, who think you courage be fitted in if they lop off certain parts. Order around can see them coming unmixed mile off".^[18] She gave depiction 1974 Aspects of Art Lecture.^[19][20] In 1990, she was determined a Commander of the Systematize of the British Empire (CBE).^[10] She died in the Regal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea,^[21] London, on 10 March 2016, at the age of 87.^[9]

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