Booker Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 16 (1984) Winner
Anita Brookner
アニタ・ブルックナー
Anita Brookner
Aliases:
Anita Schishka Bruckner
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1928-07-16 （Herne Hill, London, England）
- Died
- 2016-03-10 （Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England） age 87
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Jewish (secular)
- Residence History
- London (birth to death) → Paris (1950s, French government scholarship)
Career
- Occupations
- Art historian, Novelist, Academic lecturer
- Active Years
- 1950-2011
- Affiliations
- Courtauld Institute of Art (lecturer, Reader), King's College London (Fellow), New Hall, Cambridge (Fellow; later Murray Edwards College)
- Influenced By
- Anthony Blunt (supervisor)
- Influenced
- Olivier Berggruen (student / advised)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Allen's Girls' School | — | — | — | 中等教育 | United Kingdom |
| King's College London | — | History | BA | 1946–1949 | United Kingdom |
| Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London) | — | Art History | PhD | 1950–1953 | United Kingdom |
| École du Louvre (scholarship) | — | — | — | 1950年代（主に1950年頃） | France |
James Allen's Girls' School
Period:
中等教育
Country:
United Kingdom
Attended a fee-paying girls' school
King's College London
History
Degree:
BA
Period:
1946–1949
Year of Graduation:
1949
Country:
United Kingdom
Received a BA in History
Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London)
Art History
Degree:
PhD
Period:
1950–1953
Year of Graduation:
1953
Country:
United Kingdom
Doctorate upgraded from an original master's thesis under Anthony Blunt
École du Louvre (scholarship)
Period:
1950年代（主に1950年頃）
Year of Graduation:
1950
Country:
France
Spent time in Paris on a French government scholarship
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Booker Prize | Hotel du Lac | — | The Booker Prizes | 受賞 |
| 1990 | Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) | — | — | The British monarchy / Honours system | 授与 |
| 2002 | Booker Prize (longlisted) | The Next Big Thing (US title: Making Things Better) | — | The Booker Prizes | ロングリスト |
| 2009 | James Tait Black Memorial Prize (shortlisted) | Strangers | — | James Tait Black Prize committee | ショートリスト |
Booker Prize
1984
Work:
Hotel du Lac
Organization:
The Booker Prizes
Result:
受賞
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
1990
Organization:
The British monarchy / Honours system
Result:
授与
Booker Prize (longlisted)
2002
Work:
The Next Big Thing (US title: Making Things Better)
Organization:
The Booker Prizes
Result:
ロングリスト
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (shortlisted)
2009
Work:
Strangers
Organization:
James Tait Black Prize committee
Result:
ショートリスト
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
A Start in Life
1981 DramaBrookner's debut novel, following the interior life of an intellectual, solitary woman and her attempts to fit into society.
LonelinessSocial fitting-inMiddle-class women
Translations
- A Start in Life
Hotel du Lac
1984 DramaCenters on a middle-aged novelist who stays at a Swiss hotel and, through encounters there, explores loneliness, self-evaluation and the nature of love. Winner of the 1984 Booker Prize.
Self-awarenessLonelinessLove and choice
Adaptations
- [Television film] Hotel du Lac / Giles Foster (1986)
Translations
- Hotel du Lac
Providence
1982 DramaA novel concerned with personal loss and family relationships.
LossFamily
Look at Me
1983 DramaA subtle novel about self-esteem and relationships with others.
Self-awarenessInterpersonal relationships
Bibliography
- Greuze: 1725–1805: The Rise and Fall of an Eighteenth-century Phenomenon (1972)
- Jacques-Louis David (1980)
- A Start in Life (1981)
- Providence (1982)
- Look at Me (1983)
- Hotel du Lac (1984)
- Family and Friends (1985)
- A Misalliance (1986)
- A Friend from England (1987)
- Latecomers (1988)
- Lewis Percy (1989)
- Brief Lives (1990)
- A Closed Eye (1991)
- Fraud (1992)
- A Family Romance (1993)
- A Private View (1994)
- Incidents in the Rue Laugier (1995)
- Altered States (1996)
- Visitors (1997)
- Soundings (1997, essays)
- Falling Slowly (1998)
- Undue Influence (1999)
- Romanticism and its Discontents (2000)
- The Bay of Angels (2001)
- The Next Big Thing (2002)
- The Rules of Engagement (2003)
- Leaving Home (2005)
- Strangers (2009)
- At The Hairdresser (2011, novella, e-book)
Adaptations
- Hotel du Lac (television film, dir. Giles Foster, 1986)
Translations of Works
- Hotel du Lac (Japanese translation)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Lyrical, restrained prosePrecise psychological depictionCalm, observational narration
- Recurring Motifs
- LonelinessIsolation of middle-class womenBackgrounds of immigrant descentLoss and failed love
Legacy
Known both for contributions to art history and for a body of novels marked by lyrical, restrained prose. Winner of the 1984 Booker Prize, she is regarded as a stylist and a pioneering woman in the field of art history.
Museums
- National Portrait Gallery, London St Martin's Place, London, England Opened in 1856
Academic Societies
- Fellowship, King's College London
- Fellowship, New Hall (Murray Edwards College)
Archives
- Anita Brookner Collection, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
- Conway Library, Courtauld Institute (photographs by Anita Brookner)
Quotes
-
"I have said that I am one of the loneliest women in London."
Source: Paris Review interview (1987) (1987)
Trivia
- Published her first novel at age 53 and then became a prolific novelist.
- First woman to hold the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge (1967).
- Never married; cared for her ageing parents.
- Photographs by her are held in the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute.