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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anita Brookner has received more than 334,669 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Anita Brookner is the 3,572nd most popular writer (up from 4,245th in 2019), the 2,637th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,214th in 2019) and the 304th most popular British Writer.

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  • 330k

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  • 49.89

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anita Brookner ranks 3,572 out of 5,755Before her are Hella Wuolijoki, Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Ghada al-Samman, Évariste de Parny, Paruyr Sevak, and Johan Ludvig Heiberg. After her are Faltonia Betitia Proba, Cemal Süreya, Marta Kauffman, Bernard Maris, Ahmad Javad, and Galaktion Tabidze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Anita Brookner ranks 280Before her are Estelle Harris, Paul Johnson, José Bonaparte, Peter Shirayanagi, Natalie Zemon Davis, and Sergey Kapitsa. After her are Milka Babović, Mitchell Ryan, Art Farmer, Emilio Pericoli, Kiyoshi Atsumi, and Arnfinn Bergmann. Among people deceased in 2016, Anita Brookner ranks 227Before her are Jan Němec, Billy Paul, Vladimir Zeldin, Madeleine Lebeau, Alan Young, and Hannes Löhr. After her are Michel Delpech, Leonid Zhabotinsky, Harry Wu, Signe Toly Anderson, Nate Thurmond, and Giovanni Coppa.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anita Brookner ranks 2,637 out of 7,765Before her are Edwin Landseer (1802), Anne of York (1475), Jeffrey Tate (1943), Sally Potter (1949), Julian Sands (1958), and James Young Simpson (1811). After her are John Crawfurd (1783), Jack Greenwell (1884), David Heyman (1961), Geoffrey Hinton (1947), John Lilburne (1614), and Philip Jackson (1948).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Anita Brookner ranks 304Before her are Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810), Paul Johnson (1928), John Winthrop (1588), Gertrude Jekyll (1843), Frances Burney (1752), and Andrew Lang (1844). After her are Iain Banks (1954), John Henry Mackay (1864), I. A. Richards (1893), Mary Sidney (1561), Radclyffe Hall (1880), and Hilary Mantel (1952).