Howard Jacobson
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 in
- Manchester
- Educated at
- Downing College
- Awards
- 🏆 Booker Prize🏆 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize🏆 honorary doctorate🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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1942
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