Jacobson, Dan

Jacobson, Dan

▪ South African novelist
born March 7, 1929, Johannesburg, S.Af.

      South African-born novelist and short-story writer.

      Jacobson was the son of eastern European Jewish immigrants. After graduation from the University of Witwatersrand (B.A., 1949), he worked in public relations and in the family cattle-feed–milling business. He then lived and worked in Israel before going to live in England in 1954. In 1974 he became a lecturer and in 1979 a reader in English at University College, London.

      In England, distanced from the South African experience, he wrote with both humour and pathos of his troubled land of birth. His first novels—The Trap (1955), A Dance in the Sun (1956), and The Price of Diamonds (1957)—form a complex mosaic that provides a peculiarly incisive view of racially divided South African society. Much of his best work is in the short stories, especially in the collections The Zulu and the Zeide (1959) and Beggar My Neighbour (1964).

      With The Beginners (1966), a long generational novel paralleling his own family history, Jacobson began to withdraw from writing about South Africa. The Rape of Tamar (1970) is a biblical novel, and The Confessions of Josef Baisz (1977) is set in a country only “something like” South Africa. His later books, however, continue to utilize both his political consciousness and his gift for irony.

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