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| Anita Brookner, Booker Prize-winning author, dies age 87, Times announces | Anita Brookner, Booker Prize-winning author, dies age 87, Times announces |
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| Anita Brookner, the Booker prize-winning British author and renowned art historian, has died at the age of 87, according to a notice in the Times. | Anita Brookner, the Booker prize-winning British author and renowned art historian, has died at the age of 87, according to a notice in the Times. |
| Brookner, who won the Booker in 1984 for her novel Hotel du Lac, was a bestselling author who wrote 25 books. | Brookner, who won the Booker in 1984 for her novel Hotel du Lac, was a bestselling author who wrote 25 books. |
| According to the Times notice, she died peacefully in her sleep on 10 March. | According to the Times notice, she died peacefully in her sleep on 10 March. |
| Fellow novelist Jilly Cooper told the paper she was a "wonderful writer" who was "an icon [of] my age". | Fellow novelist Jilly Cooper told the paper she was a "wonderful writer" who was "an icon [of] my age". |
| Critical acclaim | |
| London-born Brookner began writing in her 50s after a successful career as an art historian. | |
| She was the first woman to hold the prestigious Slade professorship of fine art at Cambridge University, and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art. | |
| Her first novel, A Start in Life, was published in 1981 and she went on to win critical acclaim. | |
| Her most recent work, the novella At The Hairdresser's, was published in 2011. |