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Anita Brookner

1928 - 2016

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Anita Brookner (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anita Brookner is the 4,419th most popular writer (down from 4,028th in 2019), the 3,488th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,886th in 2019) and the 384th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Anita Brookner ranks 4,419 out of 7,302. Before her are Christian Gotthilf Salzmann, Ahmed Rami, Arkady Averchenko, Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, Mario Rigoni Stern, and Uma Aaltonen. After her are Ágnes Gergely, Diane Ackerman, Virginie Despentes, Balamani Amma, James Salter, and Connie Willis.

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Among people born in 1928, Anita Brookner ranks 373. Before her are Julien Guiomar, Chung Won-shik, Théodore Sindikubwabo, Pedro Casaldáliga, Giuseppe Pinelli, and Yelizaveta Dementyeva. After her are Jo Myong-rok, Minas Avetisyan, Dominique Colonna, Léon Glovacki, Åke Johansson, and Marian Seldes. Among people deceased in 2016, Anita Brookner ranks 307. Before her are Arturo Pomar, José Parra Martínez, David Padilla, Axel Schandorff, Michel Rousseau, and Luis Alberto Monge. After her are Marco Pannella, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Muhamed Mujić, John Johnson, Martin Gray, and Fritz Stern.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anita Brookner ranks 3,489 out of 8,785. Before her are Barry Ackroyd (1954), Abraham Darby I (1678), Melita Norwood (1912), John Walter Gregory (1864), David Don (1799), and Gabrielle Anwar (1970). After her are Garry Chalk (1952), John Benbow (1653), Pybba of Mercia (570), David Murray (1909), Samuel Baker (1821), and Mary F. Lyon (1925).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Anita Brookner ranks 384. Before her are Walter Savage Landor (1775), John Lyly (1554), I. A. Richards (1893), Robert Greene (1558), Minette Walters (1949), and Rosemary Sutcliff (1920). After her are Grace Elliott (1754), Michael Morpurgo (1943), John Stott (1921), Anne Bradstreet (1612), Robert Edmond Grant (1793), and Grace Aguilar (1816).

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