by Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson is a British novelist and journalist born in Manchester in 1942, known for his comic novels often featuring British Jewish characters. He studied English under F.R. Leavis at Downing College, Cambridge, taught at universities in Australia and England, and published his first novel, Coming from Behind, in 1983. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2010 for The Finkler Question, the first comic novel to win since 1986.