Anita Brookner (1928–2016)
Författare till Hotel du Lac
Om författaren
Anita Brookner was born in London, England on July 16, 1928. She received a BA in history from King's College London in 1949 and a doctorate in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1953. She went on to lecture in art at Reading University and the Courtauld Institute, where she visa mer specialized in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art. She became the first woman to be named as Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge University in 1967. Her first novel, A Start in Life, was published in 1981. Some of her other works include The Bay of Angels, The Next Big Thing, The Rules of Engagement, Latecomers, Leaving Home, Incidents in the Rue Laugier, Look at Me, and Strangers. Hotel du Lac won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1984 and was adapted for television in 1986. She has also written scholarly works about Jacques Louis David, Jean Baptiste Greuze, and Jean-Antoine Watteau. She died on March 10, 2016 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Serier
Verk av Anita Brookner
The Genius of the Future: Diderot, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Zola, the Brothers Goncourt, Huysmans : Essays in French Art… (1971) 21 exemplar
Desconhecidos 1 exemplar
ידידה מאנגליה 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The Surprise of Cremona: One Woman's Adventures in Cremona, Parma, Mantua, Ravenna, Urbino and Arezzo (1954) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor — 50 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Brookner, Anita
- Födelsedag
- 1928-07-16
- Avled
- 2016-03-10
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Födelseort
- Herne Hill, London, England, UK
- Dödsort
- London, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- London, England, UK
Paris, France - Utbildning
- James Allen's Girls School, UK
King's College, London
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London - Yrken
- art historian
university professor
novelist - Organisationer
- Courtauld Institute of Art
University of London
University of Cambridge
Reading University - Priser och utmärkelser
- Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1990)
University of London (Fellow, King's College) - Agent
- A. M. Heath & Co
- Kort biografi
- Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and 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. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.
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Diskussioner
Anita Brookner i Virago Modern Classics (augusti 2013)
Recensioner
Hotel du Lac
This is an altogether fabulous book and I am shocked this was the first I'd heard of Anita Brookner! She has a way with description that makes your heart sing, and she described her characters so well- with a well-placed word or two- that you can see them and hear them. And laugh! This is a funny book, with many truths in evidence. Read it.
I liked this book that is focused on a novel writer who makes an unusual, disturbing decision and is therefore pushed into going away for a month to allow people to be restored to their previous state, no longer overcome by their reaction to what they perceived as the horror of that decision. She goes to a bland, fine, old hotel in Switzerland where she encounters a number of people - none of whom are "ordinary folks." Anything more would introduce spoilers. I liked, but did not love, this book. I am baffled why it won the Booker Prize.… (mer)
An absolute delight of a book, and the perfect reading material for when you're feeling a little bit 'stuck'.
I can’t remember how many times I’ve read this novel. I’m simply captivated by Brookner’s prose. Undeniably worthy of five stars. It has the best first paragraph, in my opinion, compared to other novels by Brookner.
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- Medlemmar
- 11,249
- Popularitet
- #2,091
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- 3.8
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- ISBN
- 584
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