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In what year did Anita Brookner began writing fiction?

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After establishing an academic career at London's Courtauld Institute of Art and becoming the first woman appointed (1968) Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge she began writing fiction in 1980 producing approximately one book a year of elegantly restrained prose.

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