Novelist, journalist and British TV personality, Jacobson is one of the most acclaimed contributors of The Independent. He wrote 14 novels, often linked one to each other by an ironical vision of the Jewish identity, and several essay and article collections. In 2007 he won the JQ Wingate Prize with his novel Kalooki Nights (2008). Known for the humorous and sharp style, he won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, the most prestigious British award for comedy writing, for two times. The first one with the novel The Mighty Waltzer (1999), and then with Zoo Time (2012). A long time English literature professor, he came to international success in 2010, when he was awarded the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question (2011). In 2016, at the five-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's death, he took part to the international project “Hogarth Shakespeare”, that reimagined the Bard through the eye of several contemporary authors, with a reinterpretation of The Merchant of Venice: Shylock is my Name. Other notable works of his are The Act of Love (2008), J (2016), Pussy (2017). By the end of 2019, his new novel Live a Little will be published.