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Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize

The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize is the United Kingdom's first literary award for comic literature. Established in 2000 and named in honour of P. G. Wodehouse, past winners include Paul Torday in 2007 with Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Marina Lewycka with A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian 2005 and Jasper Fforde for The Well of Lost Plots in 2004. Gary Shteyngart was the first American winner in 2011.[1]

The Prize is sponsored and organized by Bollinger, a producer of sparkling wines from the Champagne region of France, and Everyman Library, a book imprint that is a division of Random House.

The winner is announced at the annual Hay Festival in May and is presented with a jeroboam of Champagne Bollinger Special Cuvée and 52 volumes of the Everyman Wodehouse edition; a Gloucestershire Old Spots pig is named after the winning novel.[2]

Past winners and shortlists edit

Year Author(s) Title Publisher Result Ref.
2000 Howard Jacobson The Mighty Walzer Jonathan Cape Winner [3]
Helen Fielding The Edge of Reason Viking Press Shortlist
Tony Hawks Playing the Moldovans at Tennis Ebury Shortlist
Hugh Massingberd The Book of Obituaries Pan Books Shortlist
Sue Townsend Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years Michael Joseph Shortlist
2001 Jonathan Coe The Rotters' Club Viking Press Winner
Michael Frayn Spies Faber and Faber Winner
Terry Eagleton The Gatekeeper St. Martin's Press Shortlist
Lissa Evans Spencer's List Viking Press Shortlist
Dave Gorman Are You Dave Gorman? Ebury Shortlist
Terry Pratchett Thief of Time Doubleday Shortlist
2003 DBC Pierre Vernon God Little Faber and Faber Winner [4]
Lucy Ellmann Dot in the Universe Bloomsbury Shortlist
India Knight Don't You Want Me Penguin Books Shortlist
Yann Martel Life of Pi Knopf Canada Shortlist
Allison Pearson I Don't Know How She Does It Chatto & Windus Shortlist
Zadie Smith The Autograph Man Hamish Hamilton Shortlist
2004 Jasper Fforde The Well of Lost Plots Hodder & Stoughton Winner [5]
Andrey Kurkov Penguin Lost Vintage Books Shortlist
Deborah Moggach These Foolish Things Vintage Books Shortlist
Alexei Sayle Overtaken Sceptre Shortlist
2005 Marina Lewycka A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Viking Press Winner [6][7]
James Hamilton-Paterson Cooking with Fernet Branca Faber and Faber Shortlist
Lloyd Jones Mr Vogel Seren Shortlist
Tiffany Murray Happy Accidents Harper Perennial Shortlist
Terry Pratchett Going Postal Doubleday Shortlist
Malcolm Pryce The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth Bloomsbury Shortlist
2006 Christopher Brookmyre All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye Abacus Books Winner [8]
Jilly Cooper Wicked! Bantam Press Shortlist
Robert Lewis The Last Llanelli Train Serpent's Tail Shortlist
John O'Farrell May Contain Nuts Doubleday Shortlist
Terry Pratchett Thud! Doubleday Shortlist
Zadie Smith On Beauty Hamish Hamilton Shortlist
2007 Paul Torday Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Weidenfeld & Nicolson Winner [9]
Howard Jacobson Kalooki Nights Jonathan Cape Shortlist
Marina Lewycka Two Caravans Penguin Books, Fig Tree Shortlist
David Nobbs Cupid's Dart Heinemann Shortlist
2008 Will Self The Butt Bloomsbury Winner [10][11]
Alan Bennett The Uncommon Reader Faber and Faber Shortlist
Joe Dunthorne Submarine Hamish Hamilton Shortlist
Julian Gough Jude: Level 1 Old Street Shortlist
Garrison Keillor Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon Viking Press Shortlist
John Walsh Sunday at the Cross Bones Harper Perennial Shortlist
2009 Geoff Dyer Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi Canongate Books Winner [12][13]
Christopher Brookmyre A Snowball in Hell Little, Brown and Company Shortlist [14][15]
Lissa Evans Their Finest Hour and a Half Transworld/Doubleday Shortlist [14][15]
James Hamilton-Paterson Rancid Pansies Faber and Faber Shortlist [14][15]
Saša Stanišić How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone Weidenfeld & Nicolson Shortlist [14][15]
Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole Hamish Hamilton Shortlist [14][15]
2010 Ian McEwan Solar Jonathan Cape Winner [16][17]
Paul Murray Skippy Dies Hamish Hamilton Shortlist [18]
Tiffany Murray Diamond Star Halo Portobello Shortlist [18]
David Nicholls One Day Hodder & Stoughton Shortlist [18]
2011 Gary Shteyngart Super Sad True Love Story Granta Shortlist [1][19]
Manu Joseph Serious Men John Murray Shortlist [20]
India Knight Comfort and Joy Penguin Books, Fig Tree Shortlist [20]
Sam Leith The Coincidence Engine Bloomsbury Shortlist [20]
Catherine O'Flynn The News Where You Are Penguin Books Shortlist [20]
Malcolm Pryce From Aberystwyth with Love Bloomsbury Shortlist [20]
2012 Terry Pratchett Snuff Transworld/Doubleday Winner [21][22]
Julian Gough Jude in London Old Street Shortlist [23][24]
John Lanchester Capital W. W. Norton Shortlist [23][24]
John O'Farrell The Man Who Forgot His Wife Doubleday Shortlist [23][24]
Sue Townsend The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year Michael Joseph Shortlist [23][24]
2013 Howard Jacobson Zoo Time Bloomsbury Winner [25][26]
Joseph Connolly England's Lane Quercus Shortlist
Helen DeWitt Lightning Rods (And Other Stories) Shortlist
Michael Frayn Skios Faber and Faber Shortlist
Deborah Moggach Heartbreak Hotel Chatto & Windus Shortlist
2014 Edward St Aubyn Lost for Words Picador Winner [27][28]
Sebastian Faulks Jeeves and the Wedding Bells Hutchinson Shortlist [29][30]
Helen Fielding Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy Jonathan Cape Shortlist [29][30]
Hanif Kureishi The Last Word Faber and Faber Shortlist [29][30]
John Niven Straight White Male Heinemann Shortlist [29][30]
Joseph O'Connor The Thrill of it All Harvill Secker Shortlist [29][30]
2015 Alexander McCall Smith Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party Polygon Winner [31]
Helen Lederer Losing It Pan Macmillan Shortlist [32]
Caitlin Moran How to Build a Girl Ebury Shortlist [32]
Joseph O'Neill The Dog 4th Estate Shortlist [32]
Nina Stibbe Man at the Helm Viking Press, Penguin Books Shortlist [32]
Irvine Welsh A Decent Ride Jonathan Cape Shortlist [32]
2016 Paul Murray The Mark and the Void Penguin Books Winner (tie) [33]
Hannah Rothschild The Improbability of Love Bloomsbury [33]
Paul Beatty The Sellout Oneworld Publications Shortlist [34]
Marina Lewycka The Lubetkin Legacy Penguin Random House Shortlist [34]
John O'Farrell There's Only Two David Beckhams Black Swan, Transworld Shortlist [34]
2017 Helen Fielding Bridget Jones's Baby Vintage Books Winner [35]
Carl Hiaasen Razor Girl Little, Brown and Company Shortlist [36]
James Robertson To Be Continued. . . Penguin Random House Shortlist [36]
Richard Russo Everybody's Fool Atlantic Books Shortlist [36]
Nina Stibbe Paradise Lodge Penguin Random House Shortlist [36]
Simon Wroe Here Comes Trouble Orion Books Shortlist [36]
2018 Not awarded [37][38]
2019 Nina Stibbe Reasons to be Cheerful Little, Brown and Company Winner [39][40]
Jen Beagin Vacuum in the Dark Simon & Schuster Shortlist [41]
Kate Davies In at the Deep End Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Shortlist [41]
Roddy Doyle Charlie Savage Jonathan Cape Shortlist [41]
Lissa Evans Old Baggage Harper Perennial Shortlist [41]
Paul Ewen Francis Plug: Writer in Residence Galley Beggar Press Shortlist [41]
2020 Matthew Dooley Flake Jonathan Cape Winner [42][43]
Oisín Fagan Nobber John Murray Shortlist [44]
Jessica Francis Kane Rules for Visiting Granta Shortlist [44]
Jenny Offill Weather Granta Shortlist [44]
Alastair Puddick 46% Better than Dave Raven Crest Books Shortlist [44]
Hannah Rothschild House of Trelawney Bloomsbury Shortlist [44]
2021 Guy Kennaway The Accidental Collector Mensch Winner
Dolly Alderton Ghosts Penguin Books Shortlist
A. Naji Bakhti Between Beirut and the Moon Influx Press Shortlist
Diksha Basu Destination Wedding Bloomsbury Shortlist
Hilary Leichter Temporary Faber and Faber Shortlist
Lauren Oyler Fake Accounts 4th Estate Shortlist
2022 Percival Everett The Trees Winner [45][46]
John Boyne The Echo Chamber Doubleday Shortlist [47]
Zakiya Dalila Harris The Other Black Girl Bloomsbury Shortlist
Marian Keyes Again, Rachel Penguin Books, Michael Joseph Shortlist [47]
Andrew Lipstein Last Resort Weidenfeld & Nicolson Shortlist [47]
Sarah Lotz Impossible HarperCollins Shortlist [47]
Phoebe Luckhurst The Lock-in Penguin Books, Michael Joseph Shortlist [47]
Lucy Mangan Are We Having Fun Yet? Profile Shortlist [47]
Richard Osman The Man Who Died Twice Viking Press Shortlist [47]
Gary Shteyngart Our Country Friends Atlantic Books Shortlist [47]
Nina Stibbe One Day I Shall Astonish the World Viking Press Shortlist [47]
Joy Williams Harrow Profile Shortlist [47]
2023 Bob Mortimer The Satsuma Complex Winner [48]
Fergus Craig Murder at Crime Manor Shortlist [45]
James Hannaham Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta Shortlist [45]
Aravind Jayan Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors Shortlist [45]
India Knight Darling Shortlist [45]
Sophie McCartney Mother Hens Shortlist [45]

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