Howard Eric Jacobson (born 25 Aug 1942) is a British novelist and journalist. He is known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters. His 1999 novel The Mighty Walzer, about a teenage table tennis champion, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing. It was followed by Who's Sorry Now?(2002). His 2006 novel Kalooki Nights was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Jacobson described Kalooki Nights as "the most Jewish novel that has ever been written by anybody, anywhere". It won the 2007 JQ Wingate Prize. In October 2010 Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Finkler Question Less