Who won the Man Booker prize for The Finkler Question?
The Finkler Question The Finkler Question The Finkler Question is a 2010 novel written by British author Howard Jacobson. The novel won the Man Booker Prize. Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they remain good friends, keeping contact with their former teacher Libor Sevcik, a Czech Jew nearing ninety who once tutored in Czech history and worked part-time as a Hollywood gossip columnist. Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and Treslove's chequered and unsuccessful record
The Finkler Question and that's a good word." The novel won the Man Booker Prize in 2010 and was the first comic novel to win the prize since Kingsley Amis's "The Old Devils" in 1986. Jacobson was the oldest winner since William Golding who won the prize in 1980, aged 69, for "Rites of Passage". In his acceptance speech, Jacobson claimed he was going to spend his £50,000 prize money on a handbag for his wife, asking, "Have you seen the price of handbags?" It was shortlisted for the JQ Wingate Prize (2011). The Finkler Question The Finkler Question is a 2010 novel