Howard Jacobson, the most recent Booker prize winner, spent more of his youth stockpiling books than reading them.

最新Booker Prize获得者Howard Jacobson童年时花了更多的时间在囤书而非读书上；

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HOWARD JACOBSON admits that he has been practising his acceptance speech for the Man Booker prize since he published his first novel, in 1983.

霍华德·雅各布森自认自从他的的首部小说1983年问世至今，他就一直在练习布克奖的获奖词。

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Howard Jacobson has won the 2010 Man Booker Prize for fiction for his book The Finkler Question.

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Also appearing during the 16-day event will be Will Self, Zadie Smith, Howard Jacobson and Pat Barker.

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Howard Jacobson's on British humour could have been written in ten minutes and Simon Heffer's on Oxbridge is a dull rant.

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