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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.
How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit. Tessa Hadley, Guardian Summer Reads, 2015 She is one of the handful of living writers who can turn a sentence so graceful that to read it is a lascivious pleasure Sunday Times A sensationally good writer -- Julie Myerson Mail on Sunday
