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October 13, 2010

Howard Jacobson Shouldn't Win The Booker For This Novel

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Reading the reviews of Howard Jacobson's recently Booker-shortlisted novel The Finkler Question, you'd think that it was in with a good chance of the prize. [...]

October 13, 2010

Sideshow: Alas, Yet Another Celebrity Split

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Howard Jacobson, 68, won Britain's Man Booker Prize Tuesday night for his 11th novel The Finkler Question, a comic tale about Jewishness in the modern world [...]

October 13, 2010

Questions Of Belonging

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A “story waiting for a plot” describes Julian Treslove, the protagonist of The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson. Treslove's sense of ambiguity about life [...]

October 13, 2010

Howard Jacobson On Taking Comic Novels Seriously

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And in the process asserts the stubbornness of life. Why would we want to read anything less? Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question is shortlisted for the [...]

October 13, 2010

Good Morning, Howard Jacobson!

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By The Editors Well, we suppose it's no longer morning for you, but congratulations all the same! You won the Booker. In so doing, you not only beat the [...]

October 13, 2010

Author Jacobson Wins Booker Prize 2010

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London, Oct 13: British author Howard Jacobson has won the Booker Prize 2010 for his comic novel "The Finkler Question', at the Guildall Hall in London on [...]

October 13, 2010

Kalooki Nights By Howard Jacobson

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to Manchester – to the well-appointed Centre for New Writing at Manchester University – to discuss Kalooki Nights with its author Howard Jacobson. [...]

October 13, 2010

Man Booker Prize Winners Of The Decade (PHOTOS)

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Yesterday, the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction went to Howard Jacobson for "The Finkler Question." Although Jacobson took home the prize yesterday, [...]

October 13, 2010

Jacobson Wins Man Booker Prize

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Howard Jacobson last night won the most prestigious award which honours fiction, the Man Booker Prize, for The Finkler Question. The win for the author and [...]

October 13, 2010

Kalooki Nights By Howard Jacobson

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It normally feels to me that I plunge into a novel as into a dark tunnel, without knowing where I'm going and certainly with no idea when or where I'm going [...]

October 13, 2010

A Watershed?

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Howard Jacobson has won the Booker Prize for his novel The Finkler Question about contemporary British Jew-hatred – and more particularly, the part played [...]

October 13, 2010

Howard Jacobson's 'Finkler Question' Wins The Man Booker Prize

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Howard Jacobson poses with his book "The Finkler Question", in London October 10, 2010. (Paul Hackett - Reuters) By Ron Charles By Howard Jacobson Howard [...]

October 13, 2010

'Finkler' Questions The Meaning Of Jewishness

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By Howard Jacobson What does it mean to be Jewish? To some it means sitting down at Katz's delicatessen with a pastrami sandwich. To others, it's setting up [...]

October 13, 2010

The Plot Against England

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By Tablet Magazine | Oct 11, 2010 7:00 AM | Print | Email | TweetShare The British Jewish writer Howard Jacobson's eleventh novel, The Finkler Question, [...]

October 13, 2010

Sheldon Howard Jacobson


9 Sep 2010 Sheldon Howard Jacobson, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: [...]

October 13, 2010

Howard Jacobson - The Act Of Love - Yorkshire Post


27 Jan 2009 Howard Jacobson - The Act of Love - Listen online: The novelist Howard Jacobson captured in conversation at the 2008 Ilkley Literature [...]

October 13, 2010

Man Booker Prize: Howard Jacobson Is Surprise Winner - Telegraph


12 Oct 2010 The Man Booker Prize judges chose writer and broadcaster Howard Jacobson as their surprise winner last night, the oldest author to take the [...]

October 13, 2010

Howard Jacobson Wins The Man Booker Prize 2010


12 Oct 2010 Howard Jacobson's laugh-out-loud exploration of Jewishness, The Finkler Question, tonight became the first unashamedly comic novel to win [...]

October 13, 2010

Howard Jacobson


Howard Jacobson at www.contemporarywriters.com - Born in Manchester, England in 1942, novelist and broadcaster Howard Jacobson was educated at Cambridge [...]

October 13, 2010

The Independent | Howard Jacobson


Celebrated novelist Howard Jacobson's most recent novel is The Finkler Question, published to great acclaim in 2010. An acerbic critic and broadcaster with [...]

October 13, 2010

Howard Jacobson Wins The Man Booker Prize For Fiction 2010: Man ...


12 Oct 2010 Howard Jacobson is tonight (Tuesday 12 October) named the winner of the £50000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Finkler Question, [...]

October 13, 2010

Howard Jacobson Wins Man Booker Prize | TopINews Mainstream News

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New Delhi/London, Howard Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize 2010 for the book 'The Finkler Question' at a glittering ceremony at the Guildall Hall in London Tuesday. The prize carried a purse of pound50,000 and earned the British writer [...]

October 13, 2010

Surely Some Mistake?: Who Lacks Imagination? Howard Jacobson On ...

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Howard Jacobson on 'Conspiracy Theorists' in last Saturday's Independent (28 August 2010): Conspiracy theorists lack imagination: In our determined unimaginativeness, we turn Kelly and Blair alike into less than men. [...]

October 13, 2010

New York Times Books // Howard Jacobson Wins Booker Prize

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The Manchester-born author Howard Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious literary award, on Tuesday night for 'The Finkler Question.' [...]

October 13, 2010

The Great Howard Jacobson Wins The Booker Prize.


There are so many reasons to love the English Jewish novelist Howard Jacobson: his great prose, his fearless honesty, his profile of a great Jewish ping-pong champion. Congratulations to him on the Man Booker Prize. Now, a little lagniappe for you, a quotation of Jacobson’s that I find particularly [...]


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