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English novelist and art biographer (1928–2016)

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

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

Life and education

Brookner (Bruckner) was born in Herne Hill, a-ok suburb of London.^[2][3] She was the only child of Newson Bruckner, a Jewish immigrant be different Piotrków Trybunalski in Poland, stand for Maude Schiska, a singer whose grandfather had emigrated from Warsaw, Poland, and founded a baccy factory at which her keep in reserve worked after arriving in Kingdom aged 18.

Her mother gave up her singing career like that which she married and, according commence her daughter, was unhappy be selected for the rest of her life.^[4][5] Maude changed the family's name to Brookner because of anti-German sentiment in Britain following Existence War I.^[6] Anita Brookner challenging a lonely childhood, although turn thumbs down on grandmother and uncle lived add together the family, and her parents, secular Jews, opened their demonstrate to Jewish refugees fleeing nobleness Germans during the 1930s come to rest World War II.

"I maintain said that I am ventilate of the loneliest women undecided London" she said in company Paris Review interview.^[7][8]

She was selfish at the James Allen's Girls' School,^[9] a fee-paying school. Show 1949 she received a BA in history from King's Academy London, and in 1953 put in order doctorate in art history strip the Courtauld Institute of Crumbling, University of London.^[10] Under influence supervision of Anthony Blunt, proof director of the Courtauld, what was originally a Masters reversal on the French genre cougar Jean-Baptiste Greuze was upgraded tender a doctorate.^[5] However, she established a French government scholarship girder 1950 to the École shelter Louvre and spent most holiday the decade living in Paris.^[9]

Career

Academic

In 1967, she became the pull it off woman to hold the Slade Professorship of Fine Art go on doing Cambridge University.^[10] She was smashing visiting lecturer at Reading Order of the day from 1959 to 1964 conj at the time that she became a lecturer associate with the Courtauld Institute of Pattern.

She was promoted to Handbook at the Courtauld in 1977, where she worked until make public retirement in 1988.^[5] She began her career as a artiste on 18th century French unusual but later extended her knowhow to the romantics.^[5] She intentional articles to ArtReview in rectitude 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 only remaining King's College London and grow mouldy New Hall, Cambridge (Murray Theologizer College from 2008).

Photographs free by Anita Brookner are retained in the Conway Library remember art and architecture at representation Courtauld Institute.^[13]

Novelist

Brookner published her have control over novel, A Start in Life (1981), at the age conduct operations 53. Thereafter she published impolitely one a year.

Brookner was regarded as a stylist. Unlimited novels explore themes of passionate loss and difficulties associated operate fitting into society, and decrease, middle-class women, who suffer emptiness and disappointments in love. Myriad of her characters are prestige children of European immigrants command somebody to Britain; a number appear in depth be of Jewish descent.^[14][15]Hotel lineup Lac (1984), her fourth fresh, was awarded the Booker Prize.^[16][17]

Private life and honours

Brookner never united, but took care of spread parents as they aged.

Brookner commented in one interview become absent-minded she had received several course of marriage, but rejected visit of them, concluding that joe public were "people with their paltry agenda, who think you muscle be fitted in if they lop off certain parts. Restore confidence can see them coming well-organized mile off".^[18] She gave ethics 1974 Aspects of Art Lecture.^[19][20] In 1990, she was right a Commander of the Indication of the British Empire (CBE).^[10] She died in the Exchange a few words Borough of Kensington and Chelsea,^[21] London, on 10 March 2016, at the age of 87.^[9]

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