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Jacobson’s ‘Finkler’ Makes Man Booker Shortlist

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By Marc Tracy|September 7, 2010 4:00 PM|8comments
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Howard Jacobson.(Guardian)

Congratulations to novelist Howard Jacobson, who after several appearances on Britain’s prestigious Man Booker Prize longlist made his first appearance on the shortlist today, along with five other novels. His The Finkler Question joins novels by Peter Carey (who could be the first three-time Man Booker winner), Emma Donoghue, Damon Galgut, Tom McCarthy, and Andrea Levy. Levy, who was nominated for The Long Song, is of Jamaican-Scots-Jewish descent (whence her last name). While we wish her the best, since Jacobson has been a Vox Tablet guest, he is Tablet Magazine’s official Man Booker candidate.

And he’s the shortlist longshot! British bookies, for whom the Man Booker is basically the Super Bowl, have fixed him at 8:1 odds, as opposed McCarthy, the favorite at 2:1; Donoghue and Galgut at 3:1; Carey at 5:1; and Levy at 7:1. Winner is announced October 12. You know you don’t want to miss that octupled payday.

Man Booker Prize Shortlist Announced [Independent]
Related: The Solipsist [Tablet Magazine]
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  • shriber

    Jacobson is a great writer, but he won’t win. The British are allergic to British Jewish writers.

  • sam

    Many of their playwrights are Jewish – Michael Frayn (Noises Off, Copenhagen), Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.

  • shriber

    Michael Frayn is Jewish? That is news to me.

    Tom Stoppard also has denied being Jewish.

    Harold Pinter, on the other hand, is a Jew only to non Jews.

    Jacobson, on the other hand, is a proud Jew.

    Which is why he will not win.

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    Erm…sorry, Shriber. He won. (So much for the kind of heavy pontification so typical on the web.)

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Jacobson’s ‘Finkler’ Makes Man Booker Shortlist

‘British Philip Roth’ is the 8:1 underdog