Brookner

[ brook-ner ]

noun

1. Anita, 1928–2016, English novelist and art historian.

Brookner

/ ˈbrʊknə /

noun

1. BrooknerAnita1928FBritishWRITING: writerHISTORY: historian Anita . born 1928, British writer and art historian. Her novels include Hotel du Lac (1984), which won the Booker Prize, Brief Lives (1990), and The Next Big Thing (2002)

Example Sentences

It turns out that Carr thinks she may have won in 2022 because she delivered a powerful monologue by her character, Dr Emma Brookner, in The Normal Heart.

From BBC

Ms. Brookner was still in her 20s when she had her first CIA assignment in Manila.

From Washington Post

When Ms. Brookner was named station chief in Jamaica in 1989, she became the first woman to lead a station in the Caribbean or Latin America.

From Washington Post

Ms. Brookner reported her deputy station chief for beating his wife; she cited a second officer who had allegedly threatened to kill his Jamaican security guards; and she disciplined a female case officer who was said to have drunkenly shouted in a bar that she worked for the CIA and hated her job.

From Washington Post

Ms. Brookner’s bosses called her work in Jamaica “superb” and “top notch.”

From Washington Post