Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question. He has written thirteen novels and five works of non-fiction. His most recent novel, J, which has been compared to Nineteen Eighty Four and Brave New Word, is published in September 2014.
Videos
Howard Jacobson @ 5x15 - My Father
Howard Jacobson tells the story of his father, a man who never read a book in his life, and who "liberated" Jacobson by dying. "This is me being funny and touching, you'll have read all about that..." he explains. Jacobson's father was, among other things, a childhood magician. But the
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