The Mighty Walzer

His 1999 novel The Mighty Walzer, about a teenage table tennis champion, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing. It is set in the Manchester of the 1950s and Jacobson, himself a teen ping pong fan, admits that there is more than an element of autobiography to it.[2] Both it and his 2002 novel Who's Sorry Now – the central character of which is a Jewish luggage baron of South London – and his 2006 novel Kalooki Nights were longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Jacobson described Kalooki Nights as "the most Jewish novel that has ever been written by anybody, anywhere."[4]
As well as his fiction, he also writes a weekly column for The Independent newspaper as an op-ed writer. In recent times, he has, on several occasions, attacked anti-Israel boycotts, and for this reason has been labelled a "liberal Zionist".[5]
On 12 October 2010, Jacobson was awarded the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel The Finkler Question.[6] The book, published by Bloomsbury, explores what it means to be Jewish today and is also about "love, loss and male friendship".[6] Chair of the judges, Sir Andrew Motion said "The Finkler Question is a marvellous book: very funny, of course, but also very clever, very sad and very subtle. It is all that it seems to be and much more than it seems to be. A completely worthy winner of this great prize."[6] Jacobson is the oldest winner since William Golding's win in 1980 and The Finkler Question is the first comic novel in the forty-two year history of the prize.[7





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