Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings | Howard Jacobson in conversation with Tishani Doshi

Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings
Howard Jacobson in conversation with Tishani Doshi

Booker Prize winning author Howard Jacobson illuminates the course of his life, the beginnings “as well as the twists and turns” that led to his becoming a writer in the candid and poignant memoir, Mother’s Boy: A Writer’s Beginnings. In an exploration of the idea of belonging, being both English and Jewish, through the growing pains of childhood, bittersweet memories and experiences as an adult, Jacobson allows a precious window into the mind, motivations and craft of a writer. He discusses the journey of understanding oneself and becoming “the writer you were meant to be” in conversation with poet and writer Tishani Doshi.

Howard Jacobson has written 16 novels and six works of nonfiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010, he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question and was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J. His latest novel, Live a Little, has been described by the Guardian as ‘wonderful’ and by The Sunday Times as ‘joyous’.

Tishani Doshi is an award-winning poet, novelist and dancer. Her most recent book, Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods, is a powerful collection of poems, which deal with coastal living, gender violence, memory, happiness and ageing. Her new novel, Small Days and Nights, is forthcoming.

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