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Howard Jacobson Author & Editor

Howard Jacobson is a British novelist and journalist. He is known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters. He is a Man Booker Prize winner. Simon Bent is a British screenwriter and playwright, whose work includes the Joe Orton biographical play Prick Up Your Ears, the theatre adaptation of A Prayer for Owen Meany (2002) and Elling (2007).