Anita Brookner is an English
novelist and art historian, born in
London in
1928. 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. Her fiction is mostly set in London, and often involves characters of
Jewish extraction, like herself.
Select bibliography:
- A Start in Life (1981)
- Providence (1982)
- Look at Me (1983)
- Hotel du Lac (1984)
- Family and Friends (1985)
- Lewis Percy (1989)
- Brief Lives (1990)
- A Closed Eye (1991)
- Fraud (1992)
- A Family Romance (1993)
- A Private View (1994)
- Altered States[?] (1996)
- Falling Slowly (1998)
- Undue Influence (1999)
- The Bay of Angels (2001)
- The Next Big Thing (2002)