Anita Brookner (1928–2016)
Autore di Hotel du Lac
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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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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The Surprise of Cremona: One Woman's Adventures in Cremona, Parma, Mantua, Ravenna, Urbino and Arezzo (1954) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 51 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Brookner, Anita
- Data di nascita
- 1928-07-16
- Data di morte
- 2016-03-10
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Herne Hill, London, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Paris, France - Istruzione
- James Allen's Girls School, UK
King's College, London (BA|1949)
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (Ph.D|1953)
École du Louvre - Attività lavorative
- art historian
university professor
novelist - Organizzazioni
- Courtauld Institute of Art
University of London
University of Cambridge
Reading University - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Commander, Order of the British Empire (1990)
University of London (Fellow, King's College)
Booker Prize for Fiction (1984) - Agente
- A. M. Heath & Co
- Breve biografia
- 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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Anita Brookner in Virago Modern Classics (Agosto 2013)
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La storia di due donne negli anni settanta legate da amicizia, sogni e desiderio di ribellione. Le loro vicende prima le allontanano poi le riavvicinano, ponendole a confrontarsi con i rispettivi traguardi e fallimenti. Le regole sociali, i doveri, le diverse forme di infelicità dell'universo femminile e soprattutto la solitudine in un romanzo dalla prosa ricercata, ma che a tratti si fa pedante e lento.
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