Dan Jacobson
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Dan Jacobson (born March 7, 1929 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a novelist, short story writer, critic and essayist. He has lived in Great Britain for many years and taught as a professor of English at University College London. His early novels, including The Trap, his first published novel, focus on South African themes. His later works have been various in kind: they include works of fantasy and treatments of historical episodes, as well as memoirs and travel books. Among his awards and prizes are the 1964 Somerset Maugham Award for Time of Arrival and Other Essays and the 1986 J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography for Time and Time Again: Autobiographies.
[edit] Works
- The Trap (1955)
- A Dance in the Sun (1956)
- The Price of Diamonds (1958)
- The Zulu and the Zeide (1959)
- The Evidence of Love (1960)
- No Further West (1961)
- Time of Arrival (1963) (essays)
- Beggar My Neighbor (1964) (short stories)
- The Beginners (1966)
- Through the Wilderness and Other Stories (1968)
- The Rape of Tamar (1970)
- Inklings (1973) (short stories)
- The Wonder-Worker (1973)
- The Confessions of Josef Baisz (1979)
- The Story of the Stories: The Chosen People and Its God (1982) (non-fiction)
- Time and Time Again: Autobiographies (1985)
- Her Story (1987)
- Adult Pleasures: Essays on Writers and Readers (1989)
- Hidden in the Heart (1991)
- The God-Fearer (1992)
- The Electronic Elephant (1994)
- Heshel's Kingdom (1998)
- All For Love (2005)
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