ANITA BROOKNER
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Anita Brookner is the author of several novels, including Fraud, Dolly, Brief Lives, Incidents in the Rue Laugier, and Hotel du Lac, for which she won the Booker Prize in 1986. Her most recent novel is The Visitors. An international authority on eighteenth-century painting, she became the first female Slade Professor at Cambridge University in 1968. Ms. Brookner lives in London.