Hannah Jacobson

Hannah Jacobson (February 19, 1931 - April 9, 2002) was a Brunanter author. She is regarded as the most important figure of dark realism, alongside Henry Winston Cavell.

Biography
The daughter of the Brunanter Jews Benjamin Jacobson and Deborah Berkowitz, Hannah was born in Sint-Anders. Her father was a respected teacher, they all escaped in the UK, shortly after the German invasion. She grew up in London and later in Oxford. After the liberation of Brunant in 1944, the Jacobson family returned in their home. Jacobson has acknowledged that the Parade of the Dead was a decisive factor in the configuration of her literary themes.

Hannah studied linguistics at the Grijzestad University, where she met her future husband, Pieter Adrichem, a law student. During her stay in Grijzestad, Hannah renounced Judaism and since then she has been self-described as an atheist. In 1957 she wrote her first novel (Creepy Laugh), which was rather a horror book, than a dark realism work.

National recognition came with The Three Widows, her first dark realism novella, published in 1962. Her reputation grew and she was soon described as the counterpart of Henry W. Cavell. Hannah reached her fame peak in the 1980's with Diary of a Psychopath and The Graveyard.

During the 90's, Hannah published only two novel, as she focused on short story collections. In 1999 she was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus. She died in 2002, after a three-years fight.