What is Anita Brookner?
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = Anita Brookner | image = | caption = Anita Brookner | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth date|1928|7|16|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Herne Hill]], [[London]], United Kingdom | alma_mater = [[King's College London]] | death_date ={{death date and age|2016|3|10|1928|7|16|df=yes}} | death_place = | occupation = Art historian & novelist | genre = Drama | movement = | spouse = | children = |signature = | website = | notablework = ''[[Hotel du Lac]]'' | period = 1981–2011 }} '''Anita Brookner''', [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35808651|title=Anita Brookner, Booker Prize-winning author, dies age 87, Times announces|publisher=BBC News|date=14 March 2016|access-date=14 March 2016}}</ref>) was a [[British people|British]] award-winning novelist and [[art historian]]. She was [[Slade Professor of Fine Art]] at the [[University of Cambridge]] from 1967 to 1968. She was the first woman to hold this [[visiting professorship]]. She was awarded the 1984 [[Man Booker Prize]] for her novel ''[[Hotel du Lac]]''. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090310024241/http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/brookner.html Anita Brookner Collection] at the [[Harry Ransom Center]] at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] * {{cite journal| url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2630/the-art-of-fiction-no-98-anita-brookner| title=Anita Brookner, The Art of Fiction No. 98| journal=Paris Review| date=Fall 1987| author=Shusha Guppy | volume=Fall 1987| issue=104}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Brookner, Anita}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:Art historians]] [[Category:Historians from London]] {{bio-stub}}