Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson was born on 25 August 1942 in Manchester. A citizen of the United Kingdom, he works in English and has pursued a professional life that encompasses fiction, journalism, and television presentation, engaging with British public life across several distinct registers.
Jacobson was educated at Downing College. His occupations as novelist, journalist, writer, and television presenter represent a range of activity within British cultural and media life. His work falls within genres that include biography, and his output has drawn recognition from prominent literary institutions in the United Kingdom.
Among the honours Jacobson has received, the Booker Prize is the most prominent. He has also received the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, an award that further marks his standing within British literary culture. Beyond these prizes, Jacobson holds a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature, a distinction conferred upon writers of recognised standing, and has been awarded an honorary doctorate.
Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester and educated at Downing College. His career as a British novelist and journalist has been acknowledged through the Booker Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature, and an honorary doctorate, collectively marking the breadth of recognition his work has received.
Quotes by Howard Jacobson
It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going to the bad. Well, yes, it has, and it is an author's job to point it out.
Of my old tendency to overdo the dedication and deface the title page with florid compliments and obscure quotes which the recipient cannot read, I will say only that I learnt my lesson when I had to shell out with my own money for a hardback I'd vandalised and now limit myself to 'Good wishes.'
Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal.
Do you want to be strangely various, or do you want to be purely yourself? Either way, revere no one.
I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer in English lit. We are, I argued, if not exactly 'saved' by reading, at least partially 'repaired' by it: made the better morally and existentially.
The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it.