Richard Ayoade, Guy Jenkin, Sandi Toksvig and Nussaibah Younis are among eight authors in the running to have a pig named after their novel in this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction.
The award aims to highlight the funniest novel of the past 12 months, one which best evokes the witty spirit of the English writer PG Wodehouse. This year’s shortlist features a “delightful mix of comedies” from “darkest satire and period farce to lightest humour,” said the chair of the judges and Hay festival co-founder Peter Florence.
