1kidzdoc
The shortlist for this award, the only UK award for comic fiction, was announced today:
A Snowball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans
Rancid Pansies by James Hamilton-Paterson
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišic
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
The winner will be announced at the Guardian Hay Festival later this month, and will receive "a jeroboam of Bollinger Special Cuvée, a case of Bollinger La Grande Année plus a set of the Everyman Wodehouse collection. As is tradition, they will also have a locally-bred Gloucestershire Old Spot pig named after their novel."
Six nominated for comic prize
A Snowball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans
Rancid Pansies by James Hamilton-Paterson
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišic
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
The winner will be announced at the Guardian Hay Festival later this month, and will receive "a jeroboam of Bollinger Special Cuvée, a case of Bollinger La Grande Année plus a set of the Everyman Wodehouse collection. As is tradition, they will also have a locally-bred Gloucestershire Old Spot pig named after their novel."
Six nominated for comic prize
2kidzdoc
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer is the winner of this year's award:
Geoff Dyer wins Wodehouse prize for comic fiction
Geoff Dyer wins Wodehouse prize for comic fiction
3kidzdoc
The shortlist for this year's award was announced last month:
Solar by Ian McEwan
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Diamond Star Halo by Tiffany Murray
One Day by David Nicholls
From Aberystwyth with Love by Malcolm Pryce
Solar by Ian McEwan
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Diamond Star Halo by Tiffany Murray
One Day by David Nicholls
From Aberystwyth with Love by Malcolm Pryce
4kidzdoc
Solar by Ian McEwan was the unanimous winner of this year's award:
Ian McEwan brings home bacon with comic novel gong for Solar
Ian McEwan brings home bacon with comic novel gong for Solar
5kidzdoc
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart is the winner of this year's Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, making him the first American writer to win this UK award:
Wodehouse prize awarded to US author Gary Shteyngart
The shortlist for this year's award included these other novels:
Serious Men by Manu Joseph
Comfort and Joy by India Knight
The Coincidence Engine by Sam Leith
The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn
Official site: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
Wodehouse prize awarded to US author Gary Shteyngart
The shortlist for this year's award included these other novels:
Serious Men by Manu Joseph
Comfort and Joy by India Knight
The Coincidence Engine by Sam Leith
The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn
Official site: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
6kidzdoc
The shortlist for this year's award was announced today:
Capital by John Lanchester (Faber & Faber)
Described as having 'a touch of Dickens' by Clare Tomalin, this chronicle of London life post-financial meltdown follows a small cross-section of the inhabitants of one south London street. The Guardian calls the book 'a brainy state-of-the-nation novel'
Jude in London by Julian Gough (Old Street Publishing)
The sequel to his previously shortlisted Jude: Level 1, Jude in London follows penniless Irish orphan Jude as he walks the length of England on a quest to find his True Love, winning the Turner Prize and killing the Poet Laureate on the way. The book was shortlisted for The Guardian's 2011 'Not the Booker shortlist'
Snuff by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday, Transworld Publishers)
'As funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh' (Independent), Snuff is Terry Pratchett's 50th book and the 39th in the Discworld novels. The book, which sees Commander Sam Vimes investigating a country house murder whilst on holiday, has become one of the fastest-selling novels since records began
The Woman who went to bed for a year by Sue Townsend (Michael Joseph)
'An exquisite social comedy' (Daily Telegraph), this is the story of Eva who, on the day her gifted twins leave home for university, climbs into bed and stays there
The Man Who Forgot His Wife by John O'Farrell (Doubleday, Transworld Publishers)
'A heart-warming comedy of marriage – and divorce' (Guardian), this is the story of Jack Vaughan who, after an amnesiac episode on the tube, can remember nothing about his life, including his wife. But when he next sees his wife – to whom he's getting divorced – it's love at first sight and sets Vaughan on a mission to rescue his marriage.
As is customary, this year's winner will be announced just ahead of the Hay festival in late May, followed by an audience with the winner during the festival. The winner will receive a jeroboam of Bollinger Special Cuvée, a case of Bollinger La Grande Année and a set of the Everyman Wodehouse collection which now totals over 80 books. The winner will also be honoured with the presentation of a locally-bred Gloucestershire Old Spot pig, who will be named after their winning title.
Capital by John Lanchester (Faber & Faber)
Described as having 'a touch of Dickens' by Clare Tomalin, this chronicle of London life post-financial meltdown follows a small cross-section of the inhabitants of one south London street. The Guardian calls the book 'a brainy state-of-the-nation novel'
Jude in London by Julian Gough (Old Street Publishing)
The sequel to his previously shortlisted Jude: Level 1, Jude in London follows penniless Irish orphan Jude as he walks the length of England on a quest to find his True Love, winning the Turner Prize and killing the Poet Laureate on the way. The book was shortlisted for The Guardian's 2011 'Not the Booker shortlist'
Snuff by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday, Transworld Publishers)
'As funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh' (Independent), Snuff is Terry Pratchett's 50th book and the 39th in the Discworld novels. The book, which sees Commander Sam Vimes investigating a country house murder whilst on holiday, has become one of the fastest-selling novels since records began
The Woman who went to bed for a year by Sue Townsend (Michael Joseph)
'An exquisite social comedy' (Daily Telegraph), this is the story of Eva who, on the day her gifted twins leave home for university, climbs into bed and stays there
The Man Who Forgot His Wife by John O'Farrell (Doubleday, Transworld Publishers)
'A heart-warming comedy of marriage – and divorce' (Guardian), this is the story of Jack Vaughan who, after an amnesiac episode on the tube, can remember nothing about his life, including his wife. But when he next sees his wife – to whom he's getting divorced – it's love at first sight and sets Vaughan on a mission to rescue his marriage.
As is customary, this year's winner will be announced just ahead of the Hay festival in late May, followed by an audience with the winner during the festival. The winner will receive a jeroboam of Bollinger Special Cuvée, a case of Bollinger La Grande Année and a set of the Everyman Wodehouse collection which now totals over 80 books. The winner will also be honoured with the presentation of a locally-bred Gloucestershire Old Spot pig, who will be named after their winning title.
7kidzdoc
Snuff by Terry Pratchett is the winner of this year's Wodehouse Prize:
Bollinger Wodehouse prize awarded to Terry Pratchett
Bollinger Wodehouse prize awarded to Terry Pratchett
8kidzdoc
The shortlist for this year's prize was announced today:
Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson: The tale of Guy Ableman, a writer in torment, both over his affections for both his wife and mother-in-law, and the terminal state of literature.
Skios by Michael Frayn: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012, Skios is a farce about a case of mistaken identity, which plays out on the fictional Greek island of the title.
England's Lane by Joseph Connolly: A "darkly humorous" (Time Out) account of three couples who own shops on a street in north London in the late 1950s and the secrets hidden behind their shop fronts.
Heartbreak Hotel by Deborah Moggach: From the author whose novel These Foolish Things was adapted into The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, this is the story of an old actor who inherits a Welsh guesthouse.
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt: An "uproariously funny" (Wall Street Journal) tale following failing salesman Joe as he launches a plan to stamp out sexual harassment in the workplace.
The winning novel will be announced ahead of the Hay Festival in late May.
More info: Michael Frayn and Howard Jacobson up for Wodehouse prize
Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson: The tale of Guy Ableman, a writer in torment, both over his affections for both his wife and mother-in-law, and the terminal state of literature.
Skios by Michael Frayn: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012, Skios is a farce about a case of mistaken identity, which plays out on the fictional Greek island of the title.
England's Lane by Joseph Connolly: A "darkly humorous" (Time Out) account of three couples who own shops on a street in north London in the late 1950s and the secrets hidden behind their shop fronts.
Heartbreak Hotel by Deborah Moggach: From the author whose novel These Foolish Things was adapted into The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, this is the story of an old actor who inherits a Welsh guesthouse.
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt: An "uproariously funny" (Wall Street Journal) tale following failing salesman Joe as he launches a plan to stamp out sexual harassment in the workplace.
The winning novel will be announced ahead of the Hay Festival in late May.
More info: Michael Frayn and Howard Jacobson up for Wodehouse prize
9bergs47
The 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction.
The six shortlisted novels are Alexander McCall Smith’s Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party, Irvine Welsh’s A Decent Ride, Joseph O’Neill’s The Dog, and three fiction debuts by female writers – Caitlin Moran’s How To Build a Girl, Nina Stibbe’s Man at the Helm and Helen Lederer’s Losing It.
The winner will be announced just before the Hay festival, which runs from 21 to 31 May.
The six shortlisted novels are Alexander McCall Smith’s Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party, Irvine Welsh’s A Decent Ride, Joseph O’Neill’s The Dog, and three fiction debuts by female writers – Caitlin Moran’s How To Build a Girl, Nina Stibbe’s Man at the Helm and Helen Lederer’s Losing It.
The winner will be announced just before the Hay festival, which runs from 21 to 31 May.
10bergs47
Titles from Penguin Random House, Oneworld, Bloomsbury and Transworld are in contention for the 2016 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize which honours the funniest novel of the year.
Former prize winner Marina Lewycka makes the shortlist for her novel The Lubetkin Legacy (Fig Tree, PRH), along with two former shortlistees – Paul Murray who is shortlisted for The Mark and the Void (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin) and twice-shortlisted John O’Farrell, There’s Only Two David Beckhams (Black Swan, Transworld).
Joining them on the shortlist are The Sellout, a "galvanizing satire" by Paul Beatty (Oneworld) which has recently won the National Book Critics Circle’s Award for Fiction in the US, and Improbability of Love (Bloomsbury) by Hannah Rothschild which features "tales of art world intrigue".
From the Bookselller 22 March 2016
Former prize winner Marina Lewycka makes the shortlist for her novel The Lubetkin Legacy (Fig Tree, PRH), along with two former shortlistees – Paul Murray who is shortlisted for The Mark and the Void (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin) and twice-shortlisted John O’Farrell, There’s Only Two David Beckhams (Black Swan, Transworld).
Joining them on the shortlist are The Sellout, a "galvanizing satire" by Paul Beatty (Oneworld) which has recently won the National Book Critics Circle’s Award for Fiction in the US, and Improbability of Love (Bloomsbury) by Hannah Rothschild which features "tales of art world intrigue".
From the Bookselller 22 March 2016
11bergs47
The shortlist for the funniest fiction prize of the year, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, were announced on Wednesday 12 April. Six titles are in contention for the top spot.
Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries by Helen Fielding
Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen
To Be Continued… by James Robertson
Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo
Paradise Lodge by Nina Stibbe
Here Comes Trouble by Simon Wroe
Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries by Helen Fielding
Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen
To Be Continued… by James Robertson
Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo
Paradise Lodge by Nina Stibbe
Here Comes Trouble by Simon Wroe
12bergs47
The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction has been withheld for the first time in its 18 years because none of the entries “prompted unanimous, abundant laughter”.
"After much deliberation, the judges concluded that although there were many amusing and well-written books among the 62 submissions, none fulfilled the criteria of making all of the judges laugh out loud,” a prize spokesperson said on Wednesday (16th May).
"After much deliberation, the judges concluded that although there were many amusing and well-written books among the 62 submissions, none fulfilled the criteria of making all of the judges laugh out loud,” a prize spokesperson said on Wednesday (16th May).
13Pharmacdon
2019 Short List and Winner
Nina Stibbe - Reasons to be Cheerful, Winner
Jen Beagin - Vacuum in the Dark
Kate Davies - In at the Deep End
Roddy Doyle - Charlie Savage
Lissa Evans - Old Baggage
Paul Ewen - Francis Plug: Writer in Residence
2020 Short List and Winner
Matthew Dooley - FLake, Winner
Oisín Fagan - Nobber
Jessica Francis Kane – Rules for Visiting
Jenny Offill - Weather
Alastair Puddick – 46% Better than Dave
Hannah Rothschild – House of Trelawney
2021 Short List and Winner
Guy Kennaway - The Accidental Collector, Winner
Dolly Alderton - Ghosts
A. Naji Bakhti - Between Beirut and the Moon
Diksha Basu - Destination Wedding
Hilary Leichter - Temporary
Lauren Oyler - Fake Accounts
Nina Stibbe - Reasons to be Cheerful, Winner
Jen Beagin - Vacuum in the Dark
Kate Davies - In at the Deep End
Roddy Doyle - Charlie Savage
Lissa Evans - Old Baggage
Paul Ewen - Francis Plug: Writer in Residence
2020 Short List and Winner
Matthew Dooley - FLake, Winner
Oisín Fagan - Nobber
Jessica Francis Kane – Rules for Visiting
Jenny Offill - Weather
Alastair Puddick – 46% Better than Dave
Hannah Rothschild – House of Trelawney
2021 Short List and Winner
Guy Kennaway - The Accidental Collector, Winner
Dolly Alderton - Ghosts
A. Naji Bakhti - Between Beirut and the Moon
Diksha Basu - Destination Wedding
Hilary Leichter - Temporary
Lauren Oyler - Fake Accounts
