British writer Anita Brookner deceased

The British writer Anita Brookner is deceased.

Besides novelist was Brookner art historian. She was the first female professor who was the senior rank professor at the University of Cambridge. She only started writing when she was in her fifties.

Brookner was born in 1928 in London. She was a child of Jewish immigrants from Poland. Because of her background she often felt an outsider in British society. This was a source of inspiration for her novels, which often were about loneliness.