About Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner was an English novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded the 1984 Booker–McConnell Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. Brookner published her first novel, A Start in Life (1981), at the age of 53. In 1967, she became the first woman to hold the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Cambridge University.
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