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Howard Jacobson

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1942, Manchester, United Kingdom

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United Kingdom

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Howard Jacobson is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Author

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Howard Jacobson is a British novelist and columnist known for comic fiction exploring Jewish identity in Britain, who won the 2010 Booker Prize for 'The Finkler Question'. Born into a Jewish family in Manchester, he has often been called the 'English Philip Roth'. He is Jewish.

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