Annual literary 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
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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