Event overview
Booker Prize-winng novelist Howard Jacobson will read from his new novel Zoo Time and reflect on the art of fiction
Born in Manchester, Howard Jacobson was educated at Cambridge University and lectured in English for several years before becoming a full-time writer. He has published numerous novels, usually comic in manner and with Jewishness as a recurrent theme: they include Coming From Behind, Peeping Tom, No More Mister Nice Guy, The Mighty Walzer, The Making of Henry and the winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize The Finkler Question. He has also written three non-fiction books: Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jews; a travel book about Australia, In the Land of Oz; and Seriously Funny: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime (1997), an analysis of comedy. He writes a weekly column for the Independent and has also made several television films. A collection of his journalism, Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It, was published in 2011. His latest novel. Zoo Time, appeared earlier this year.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 12 Dec 2012 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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