Howard Jacobson failed to become a two-time Man Booker Prize as the prestigious literary accolade was awarded to Australian writer Richard Flanagan.
Mr Jacobson’s novel J was one of six nominated for the prize, which was announced on Tuesday evening.
Although the work was one of the favourites for the £50,000 prize, the judges chose Mr Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, describing it as a “magnificent novel of love and war”.
The book tells the harrowing story of prisoners working on the Burma railway during the Second World War.
