Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner CBE (* July 16, 1928 in London) is a British writer and art historian with Polish roots.

  • 3.1 Non-fiction
  • 3.2 novels

Life

Schools and Universities

Brook Listeners parents - Newson Bruckner and Maud Schiska - fleeing the pogroms in their native Poland and settled in London. They also changed their German -sounding name " Bruckner " in " Brookner ".

Your school graduated Brookner at the privately run James Allen 's Girls ' School in Dulwich (South London). She studied art history at King's College London and earned a Bachelor of Arts there in 1949. For her doctoral studies ( Ph.D.) she moved to the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London and was able to successfully complete this in 1953. Following this, she completed a three-year post-graduate studies at the University of Paris.

Art historian and art historical works

From 1959 to 1964 Brookner worked first as a lecturer at the University of Reading and 1967 and at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she specialized in French art of the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1967 she became the first woman for a year, the Slade Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Cambridge.

In addition to her time as a lecturer and professor she has written numerous biographical books about French painter Jean -Auguste -Dominique Ingres, Antoine Watteau, Jean -Baptiste Greuze and Jacques -Louis David, as well as a monograph on the art criticism in the literary works of Denis Diderot Stendhal, Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt and Joris- Karl Huysmans.

Writer and literary work

Beginning of the 1980s began Anita Brookner their literary activity as a novelist. In 1981 she published her first novel, A Start in Life. Her novel Hotel du Lac (1984 ) in 1984 won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1986 and aired as a television movie starring Anna Massey.

The 2001 published novel The Bay of Angels is about a single woman who finds a new meaning for the processing of their freedom as her widowed mother marries again and warp to overseas. My twenty-second novel, The Rules of Engagement (2003 ) is a story about friendship and decisions. 2009 appeared to her most recent novel Strangers,

Anita Brookner, who lives in London, is not only a Fellow of New Hall was founded in 1954 as Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, but 1990 was also Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In addition, she has published articles in the London Review of Books and shaped by their works the work of New Zealand writer Barbara Anderson.

Honors

Works (selection)

Non-fiction

  • I. A. Dominque Ingres. Knowledge Publ, London 1965.
  • Watteau ( " Watteau ", 1967). Edition Colour Collection, Herrsching 11986, ISBN 3-88674-112-5.
  • The Genius of the Future. Studies in French Art Criticism; Diderot, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Zola, the Brothers Goncourt, Huysmans. University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1988, ISBN 0-8014-9540-7 ( Nachdr d ed London 1971).
  • Greuze. The Rise and Fall of an Eighteenth - Century Phenomenon. Elek, London 1972, ISBN 0-236-17678-1.
  • Jacques -Louis David. A Personal Interpretation ( Lecture on Aspects of Art). University Press, London 1974, ISBN 0-19-725719-4.
  • Jacques -Louis David. Thames & Hudson, New York, 1987, ISBN 0-500-27448-7 ( Nachdr d ed London 1980).
  • Edwin Mullins (ed.): Great Paintings. Fifty Masterpieces, Explored, Explained and Appreciated. St. Martin's Press, New York 1981, ISBN 0-312-34636-0 ( co-author ).
  • Romanticism and Its Discontents. Viking, London 2000, ISBN 0-670-89212-2.

Novels

  • Providence, Random, New York 1994, ISBN 0-679-73814-2 ( Nachdr d ed London 1982).
  • Look at me ( " Look at Me ", 1983). Dtv, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-423-11553- X ( translated by Herbert Schlüter ).
  • Hotel du Lac ( " Hotel du Lac ", 1984). Dtv, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-423-11365-0 ( translated by Dora Winkler ).
  • Virtue and vice ( "Family and Friends", 1985). Dtv, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-423-11807-5 ( translated by Melanie Walz).
  • Past is another country ("A Misalliance ", 1986). Dtv, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-423-11594-7 ( translated by Herbert Schlüter ).
  • Winter trip to Venice ( " A Friend from England ", 1987). Zsolnay, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-552-04120-6 ( translated by Marion Zerbst ).
  • Stragglers ( " Latecomers ", 1988). Zsolnay, Vienna, 1991, ISBN 3-552-04323-3 ( translated by Edith Walter ).
  • Lewis Percy. Cape, London, 1989, ISBN 0-224-02668-2.
  • Short life ( " Brief Lives ", 1990). Dtv, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-423-12171-8 (translated by Angelika Felenda ).
  • Lost requests ( "A Closed Eye", 1991). Dtv, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-423-12322-2 (translated by Angelika Felenda ).
  • Fraud. Cape, London 1992, ISBN 0-224-03315-8.
  • A Family Romance. Cape, London 1993, ISBN 0-224-03643-2.
  • A Private View. Cape, London 1994, ISBN 0-224-03684- X.
  • Incidents in the Rue Laugier. Cape, London 1995, ISBN 0-224-04124- X.
  • Altered States. Cape, London 1996, ISBN 0-224-04282-3.
  • Soundings. Harville Press, London 1997, ISBN 1-86046-388-6.
  • Visitors. Cape, London 1997, ISBN 0-224-04288-2.
  • Falling Slowly. Viking, London 1998, ISBN 0-670-88191-0.
  • Undue Influence. Viking, London 1999, ISBN 0-670-88637-8.
  • The Next Big Thing. Viking, London 2002, ISBN 0-670-88637-8.
  • Leaving Home. Viking, London 2005, ISBN 0-670-91590-4.
France 18th century 19th century Biography Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Jean-Antoine Watteau Jacques-Louis David Television film Barbara Anderson (writer) James Tait Black Memorial Prize Martin Amis Malcolm Bradbury Angela Carter Russell Hoban David Lodge (author) Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch V. S. Pritchett David Storey Fay Weldon Dorothy L. Sayers Margaret Drabble Jeanette Winterson Integrated Authority File
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