Dan Jacobson

(Johannesburg, 1929) grew up in South-Africa, but he lives in the United Kingdom since 1954. He write novels, short stories, essays and poetry. He is an emeritus professor of English Literature. In his novel Heshels Rijk (Heshel’s Empire) he searches for his grandfather, a rabbi in a Latvian village, whose death cleared the way for the family’s move to South-Africa, through which they escaped from the holocaust.