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Howard Eric Jacobson is a British novelist and journalist. He writes comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters. He is a Man Booker Prize winner.
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Born 25 August 1942 · Q357929
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“s never attempted anything like that, in any of his marriages. But what The Act Of Love, and Jacobson do achieve, is an excellent case for the twisted and curious merits of jealousy. Yes, it”
The Guardian: Howl by Howard Jacobson review – a tragicomic portrait of a Jewish man’s despair
The Guardian: Dear Howard Jacobson, don’t let historical hatreds hide Israel’s cruelty | Louise Adler
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (2024).
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The Guardian: What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson review – end of the affair
The Guardian: What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson review – drama that is all in the dialogue
The Guardian: Mother’s Boy by Howard Jacobson review – a captivatingly melodramatic memoir
The Guardian: Mother’s Boy by Howard Jacobson review – a literary titan ill at ease in the world
The Guardian: Howard Jacobson: ‘I’m my mother’s son, which was terrible news for my father’
The Guardian: Howard Jacobson: 'A feelgood Holocaust exploits the dead and demeans the living'
The Guardian: Iris Murdoch at 100 and Howard Jacobson on humour and shame – books podcast
The Guardian: Live a Little by Howard Jacobson review – wonderful
The Guardian: On my radar: Howard Jacobson’s cultural highlights
The Guardian: Live a Little by Howard Jacobson review – the torments of desire
The Guardian: 'The problem is the reader': Howard Jacobson says the novel is not dead
The Guardian: Howard Jacobson: ‘Jews know what antisemitism is and what it isn’t. To invent it would be a sacrilege’
The Guardian: Howard Jacobson on Manchester: ‘I lack its passion for football and Noel Gallagher’
“Jeremy Corbyn is Unfit to be Prime Minister”
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Awarded Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize (2013).
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2012).
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Awarded Booker Prize for The Finkler Question (2010).
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Presented "Creation", the first part of the Channel 4 series The Bible: A History
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Jacobson was married for the third time, to radio and TV documentary maker Jenny De Yong
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Awarded Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize (2000).
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And The South Bank Show in 2002, which featured an edition entitled "Why the Novel Matters"
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And a television documentary entitled "My Son the Novelist" preceded it as part of the Arena series in 1985
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Titled In the Land of Oz, which was researched during his time as a visiting academic in Sydney
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They have a son, Conrad Jacobson, born in December 1968.
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Living there briefly before moving to London, where Conrad was born
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Born 1942-08-25.
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