(1942-08-25) 25 August 1942 (age 81) Manchester, England
Occupation
Novelist, columnist, broadcaster
Alma mater
Downing College, Cambridge
Period
1983–present
Genre
Biographical
Subject
Jewishness, humour
Notable awards
Man Booker Prize (2010)
Spouse
Barbara Starr (m. 1964; div.) Rosalin Sadler (m. 1978; div. 2004) Jenny De Yong (m. 2005)
Howard Eric Jacobson (born 25 August 1942) is a British novelist and journalist. He writes comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters.[1] He is a Man Booker Prize winner.
^Ragi, K. R., "Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question as a Post-Holocaust Fiction", in Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies. July 2014, vol. 5, issue 3, pp. 50-55.
Howard Eric Jacobson (born 25 August 1942) is a British novelist and journalist. He writes comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British...
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The Finkler Question is a 2010 novel written by British author HowardJacobson. The novel won the Booker Prize. Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular...
Alexandria. Naomi Yavneh has placed his work in the 3rd century BCE, while HowardJacobson estimates the 2nd century BCE. Evidence of the date is not definitive...
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Eden, Nod means disturbance. (Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 2.51.4–5) HowardJacobson, "The Land of Nod", Journal of Theological Studies, New Series, 41(1)...
reasons why, in his opinion, the cartoon is not antisemitic. Writer HowardJacobson claimed the cartoon was not antisemitic. British Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks...
Gillian Flynn, Jo Nesbo and HowardJacobson sat for him, and the paintings were exhibited at the Globe. Of his portrait, Jacobson said; "It's my soul. He's...
The Whirlwinds and The Mockingbirds was Stephen Jacobson, brother of well-known writer HowardJacobson. In June 1967, Godley and Creme reunited and recorded...
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medieval origins of the iconography of antisemitism. According to HowardJacobson, Lipton argues that the medieval artistic convention of depicting Jews...
a country lane on the Isle of Wight in his 4x4 Lamborghini Urus. "HowardJacobson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zaha Hadid, Colin Firth, Mumford and Sons, Christian...
1936. The Moors murderer Myra Hindley was born in Crumpsall in 1942. HowardJacobson was brought up in Crumpsall and some of his novels, Kalooki Nights...
scandal" by the Board of Deputies of British Jews while British author HowardJacobson called the inquiry "a brief and shoddy shuffling of superficies" that...
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