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.
Mr Jacobson won the Man Booker in 2010 for his novel, The Finkler Question.
