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Roy Jacobsen Urs Jaeggi
Howard Jacobson
  • Geboren: 25. August 1942 in Manchester (Großbritannien)
  • Man Booker Prize: 2010

Journalist und Fernsehmoderator für den Independent und Channel 4. Hat es 2002 und 2006 schon zweimal in die Longlist für den Man Booker Prize geschafft, aber bis 2010 noch nie in die Shortlist.

Der Vorsitzende der Jury für den Man Booker Prize, Andrew Morton, kommentierte die Preisvergabe 2010 so: The Finkler Question is a marvellous book: very funny, of course, but also very clever, very sad and very subtle. It is all that it seems to be and much more than it seems to be.

Werke
1983 [rom] Coming From Behind
1984 [rom] Peeping Tom
1986 [rom] Redback
1998 [rom] No More Mr. Nice Guy
1999 [rom] The Mighty Walzer
2002 [rom] Who's Sorry Now?
2004 [rom] The Making of Henry
2006 [rom] Kalooki Nights
2008 [rom] Liebesdienst [The Act of Love]
2010 [rom] Die Finkler-Frage [The Finkler Question]