Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner Hermione Lee

Reception

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Times Literary Supplement · 30 September 2026

One of the happy few?

How writing freed Anita Brookner from despair

By Elizabeth Lowry

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London Review of Books · 24 September 2026

Omelettes and Whisky

Over the course of 24 novels and 87 years, Anita Brookner achieved many dislocations of selfhood and may have become more and more like the people she dreamed into life. It’s a novelist’s fate, not so much that their characters are like them but that they become their characters.

By Andrew O’Hagan

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The Guardian · 1 September 2026

Anita Brookner by Hermione Lee review – an enigmatic literary great given her due

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Literary Review · 1 September 2026

Spiky, Sharp, Cool

By Kathryn Hughes

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Hermione Lee, born 1948, United Kingdom.