Anita Brookner, Booker Prize-winning author, dies age 87, Times announces

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Anita Brookner, Booker Prize-winning author, dies age 87, Times announces

LONDON: -- 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.

According to the Times notice, she died peacefully in her sleep on 10 March.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35808651


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R.I. P. Anita,she was a great novelist!