Jew Talkin’ To Me? With Howard Jacobson

Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by Man Booker Prize winning novelist and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson!

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Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, and has become one of the best known writers of our generation. His novel The Mighty Walzer, about a teenage table tennis champion, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing. He later won the prize again for Zoo Time. His next novel, Who’s Sorry Now was the first of four of his novels to be longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, followed by Kalooki Nights. He was awarded the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question in 2010. His novel, J, was shortlisted for the award in 2014.

He has written several works of non-fiction, including In the Land of Oz and Roots Schmoots which was made into a critically acclaimed Channel 4 Series, as well as Seriously Funny: An Argument for Comedy. He wrote a column for The Independent for twenty years, two collections of which have been published under the titles Whatever It Is I Don’t like It and the Dog’s Last Walk. In 2014, he wrote and presented a two-part documentary Rebels of Oz for Mint Productions and BBC Four, in which he examines the cultural impact made by four rebellious Australians: Germaine Greer, Clive James, Barry Humphries and Robert Hughes.  Howard is a regular presenter of Radio 4’s A Point of View. In 2022 his memoir Mother’s Boy: A Writer’s Beginnings was published.

Seek out his substack - https://jacobsonh.substack.com/

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