Rupert Christiansen in this week's
Telegraph:
For sheer sharpness and elegance of mind, I have never
encountered anyone to match the art historian and novelist Anita Brookner.
I used to sit next to her on a tedious committee otherwise stuffed with
blowhard civil servants: the way she could cut through their pompous waffle
with a single pithy point was awe-inspiring. 'Idiotic men!' she would mutter
furiously under her breath when the meeting was over.
[She left the bulk of her estate to] Médecins Sans
Frontières, the no-nonsense charity that sends doctors to war‑torn areas. There
was nothing sentimental about Anita, but her kindness ran as deep as her
intelligence.
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