p16 p17 diary Howard Jacobson
Pic: Rebecca Reid
Rebecca Reid
15 May 2013
Hilary Mantel may have a heavy awards cabinet but Howard Jacobson is catching up. The Booker Prize winner has scooped a second Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for his novel, Zoo Time.
His first win was for The Mighty Walzer back in 2000. Part of the prize is the naming of a Gloucestershire Old Spot pig after the winning book. “I’m only sorry my pig has to be called Zoo Time,” said Jacobson.
“It feels a bit tactless. But it could have been worse. It could have been Bring Up the Bodies.”
