Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and after holding a post as a professor at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris, she worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. In 1984, she won the Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner published a number of volumes of art criticism. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990. She died in 2016 at the age of 87.
Miss Brookner's most absorbing novel . . . graceful and
attractive
*New York Times*
Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly
commanding
*Hilary Mantel, Guardian*
Hotel du Lac is written with a beautiful grave formality, and it
catches at the heart
*Observer*
The last great novelist of the 20th century
*Daily Telegraph*
A classic . . . a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred
years from now
*Spectator*
A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous,
witty, touching and formidably clever
*The Times*
She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction
*Literary Review*
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