Howard Jacobson
The Finkler Question
Bloomsbury
Accepting the prize, Jacobson joked he had been writing unused acceptance speeches for years. ‘I note that my language in these speeches grows less gracious with the years. You start to want to blame the judges who have given you the prize for all the prizes they didn’t give you. But they aren’t, of course, the same judges. Tonight, I forgive everyone - they were only doing their job, those judges…’
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Shortlisted authors
Peter Carey
Emma Donoghue
Damon Galgut
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Andrea Levy
Tom McCarthy
Judges |
