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Also known as Howard Eric Jacobson

British author and journalist

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It sits within the topics 1942 births, 20th-century English male writers and 20th-century English novelists.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1942
Works
54

Top works

  • Howl
  • Howl
  • La grande ménagerie
  • La question Finkler
  • Het uur van de dieren

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
35
Total plays
509

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Howard+Jacobson">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.
  • All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?
  • I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.
  • In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.
  • In the highly improbable event of his being asked to nominate the one most un-Jewish thing he could think of, Sefton Goldberg would have been hard pressed to decide between Nature – that's to say birds, trees, flowers, and country walks – and football – that's to say beer, bikies, mud, and physical pain.
  • He was as sentimental as Hitler about applause and crowds.

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Key facts

Born
( 1942-08-25 ) 25 August 1942 (age 83) , 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 ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1964 , divorced ) ​ , Rosalin Sadler ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1978 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2004 ) ​ , Jenny De Yong ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2005 ) ​

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Wikidata facts

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Howard Jacobson speaking at British Library in 2022.jpg
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date of birth
1942-08-25
start of work period
1978-00-00
Sources (4)

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Encyclopedic overview

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. He is a Man Booker Prize winner.

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Howard Jacobson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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