# 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, and 2020 saw a graphic novel take the prize for the first time.
The Prize is sponsored and organised 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.
Until 2019 the winner was announced at the annual Hay Festival. Winners receive a jeroboam of Champagne Bollinger Special Cuvée, a case of Bollinger La Grande Année and a complete set of the Everyman's Library P. G. Wodehouse collection. In addition, a Gloucestershire Old Spots pig is also named after the winning novel.

## Winners and shortlists

The judges for the inaugural award were Stephen Fry, Craig Brown, Sebastian Faulks and Jo Brand.
| Year | Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Result |
| 2000 | Howard Jacobson | The Mighty Walzer | Jonathan Cape | Winner |
| 2000 | Helen Fielding | Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason | Viking Press | Shortlisted |
| 2000 | Tony Hawks | Playing the Moldovans at Tennis | Ebury | Shortlisted |
| 2000 | Hugh Massingberd | The Book of Obituaries | Pan Books | Shortlisted |
| 2000 | Sue Townsend | Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years | Michael Joseph | Shortlisted |
| 2001 | Jonathan Coe | The Rotters' Club | Viking Press | Winner |
| 2002 | Michael Frayn | Spies | Faber and Faber | Winner |
| 2002 | Terry Eagleton | The Gatekeeper | St. Martin's Press | Shortlisted |
| 2002 | Lissa Evans | Spencer's List | Viking Press | Shortlisted |
| 2002 | Will Ferguson | Happiness™ | Canongate | Shortlisted |
| 2002 | Dave Gorman & Danny Wallace | Are You Dave Gorman? | Ebury | Shortlisted |
| 2002 | Terry Pratchett | Thief of Time | Doubleday | Shortlisted |
| 2003 | DBC Pierre | Vernon God Little | Faber and Faber | Winner |
| 2003 | Lucy Ellmann | Dot in the Universe | Bloomsbury | Shortlisted |
| 2003 | India Knight | Don't You Want Me | Penguin Books | Shortlisted |
| 2003 | Yann Martel | Life of Pi | Knopf Canada | Shortlisted |
| 2003 | Allison Pearson | I Don't Know How She Does It | Chatto & Windus | Shortlisted |
| 2003 | Zadie Smith | The Autograph Man | Hamish Hamilton | Shortlisted |
| 2004 | Jasper Fforde | The Well of Lost Plots | Hodder & Stoughton | Winner |
| 2004 | Andrey Kurkov | Penguin Lost | Vintage Books | Shortlisted |
| 2004 | Deborah Moggach | These Foolish Things | Vintage Books | Shortlisted |
| 2004 | Alexei Sayle | Overtaken | Sceptre | Shortlisted |
| 2005 | Marina Lewycka | A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian | Viking Press | Winner |
| 2005 | James Hamilton-Paterson | Cooking with Fernet Branca | Faber and Faber | Shortlisted |
| 2005 | Lloyd Jones | Mr Vogel | Seren | Shortlisted |
| 2005 | Tiffany Murray | Happy Accidents | Harper Perennial | Shortlisted |
| 2005 | Terry Pratchett | Going Postal | Doubleday | Shortlisted |
| 2005 | Malcolm Pryce | The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth | Bloomsbury | Shortlisted |
| 2006 | Christopher Brookmyre | All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye | Abacus Books | Winner |
| 2006 | Jilly Cooper | Wicked! | Bantam Press | Shortlisted |
| 2006 | Robert Lewis | The Last Llanelli Train | Serpent's Tail | Shortlisted |
| 2006 | John O'Farrell | May Contain Nuts | Doubleday | Shortlisted |
| 2006 | Terry Pratchett | Thud! | Doubleday | Shortlisted |
| 2006 | Zadie Smith | On Beauty | Hamish Hamilton | Shortlisted |
| 2007 | Paul Torday | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | Winner |
| 2007 | Howard Jacobson | Kalooki Nights | Jonathan Cape | Shortlisted |
| 2007 | Marina Lewycka | Two Caravans | Penguin Books, Fig Tree | Shortlisted |
| 2007 | David Nobbs | Cupid's Dart | Heinemann | Shortlisted |
| 2008 | Will Self | The Butt | Bloomsbury | Winner |
| 2008 | Alan Bennett | The Uncommon Reader | Faber and Faber | Shortlisted |
| 2008 | Joe Dunthorne | Submarine | Hamish Hamilton | Shortlisted |
| 2008 | Julian Gough | Jude: Level 1 | Old Street | Shortlisted |
| 2008 | Garrison Keillor | Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon | Viking Press | Shortlisted |
| 2008 | John Walsh | Sunday at the Cross Bones | Harper Perennial | Shortlisted |
| 2009 | Geoff Dyer | Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi | Canongate Books | Winner |
| 2009 | Christopher Brookmyre | A Snowball in Hell | Little, Brown and Company | Shortlisted |
| 2009 | Lissa Evans | Their Finest Hour and a Half | Transworld / Doubleday | Shortlisted |
| 2009 | James Hamilton-Paterson | Rancid Pansies | Faber and Faber | Shortlisted |
| 2009 | Saša Stanišić | How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | Shortlisted |
| 2009 | Steve Toltz | A Fraction of the Whole | Hamish Hamilton | Shortlisted |
| 2010 | Ian McEwan | Solar | Jonathan Cape | Winner |
| 2010 | Paul Murray | Skippy Dies | Hamish Hamilton | Shortlisted |
| 2010 | Tiffany Murray | Diamond Star Halo | Portobello | Shortlisted |
| 2010 | David Nicholls | One Day | Hodder & Stoughton | Shortlisted |
| 2010 | Malcolm Pryce | From Aberystwyth with Love | Bloomsbury | Shortlisted |
| 2011 | Gary Shteyngart | Super Sad True Love Story | Granta | Winner |
| 2011 | Manu Joseph | Serious Men | John Murray | Shortlisted |
| 2011 | India Knight | Comfort and Joy | Penguin Books, Fig Tree | Shortlisted |
| 2011 | Sam Leith | The Coincidence Engine | Bloomsbury | Shortlisted |
| 2011 | Catherine O'Flynn | The News Where You Are | Penguin Books | Shortlisted |
| 2012 | Terry Pratchett | Snuff | Transworld / Doubleday | Winner |
| 2012 | Julian Gough | Jude in London | Old Street | Shortlisted |
| 2012 | John Lanchester | Capital | W. W. Norton | Shortlisted |
| 2012 | John O'Farrell | The Man Who Forgot His Wife | Doubleday | Shortlisted |
| 2012 | Sue Townsend | The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year | Michael Joseph | Shortlisted |
| 2013 | Howard Jacobson | Zoo Time | Bloomsbury | Winner |
| 2013 | Joseph Connolly | England's Lane | Quercus | Shortlisted |
| 2013 | Helen DeWitt | Lightning Rods (and Other Stories) | New Directions | Shortlisted |
| 2013 | Michael Frayn | Skios | Faber and Faber | Shortlisted |
| 2013 | Deborah Moggach | Heartbreak Hotel | Chatto & Windus | Shortlisted |
| 2014 | Edward St Aubyn | Lost for Words | Picador | Winner |
| 2014 | Sebastian Faulks | Jeeves and the Wedding Bells | Hutchinson | Shortlisted |
| 2014 | Helen Fielding | Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy | Jonathan Cape | Shortlisted |
| 2014 | Hanif Kureishi | The Last Word | Faber and Faber | Shortlisted |
| 2014 | John Niven | Straight White Male | Heinemann | Shortlisted |
| 2014 | Joseph O'Connor | The Thrill of it All | Harvill Secker | Shortlisted |
| 2015 | Alexander McCall Smith | Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party | Polygon | Winner |
| 2015 | Helen Lederer | Losing It | Pan Macmillan | Shortlisted |
| 2015 | Caitlin Moran | How to Build a Girl | Ebury | Shortlisted |
| 2015 | Joseph O'Neill | The Dog | 4th Estate | Shortlisted |
| 2015 | Nina Stibbe | Man at the Helm | Viking Press, Penguin Books | Shortlisted |
| 2015 | Irvine Welsh | A Decent Ride | Jonathan Cape | Shortlisted |
| 2016 | Paul Murray | The Mark and the Void | Penguin Books | Winner (tie) |
| 2016 | Hannah Rothschild | The Improbability of Love | Bloomsbury | Winner (tie) |
| 2016 | Paul Beatty | The Sellout | Oneworld Publications | Shortlisted |
| 2016 | Marina Lewycka | The Lubetkin Legacy | Penguin Random House | Shortlisted |
| 2016 | John O'Farrell | There's Only Two David Beckhams | Black Swan, Transworld | Shortlisted |
| 2017 | Helen Fielding | Bridget Jones's Baby | Vintage Books | Winner |
| 2017 | Carl Hiaasen | Razor Girl | Little, Brown and Company | Shortlisted |
| 2017 | James Robertson | To Be Continued... | Penguin Random House | Shortlisted |
| 2017 | Richard Russo | Everybody's Fool | Atlantic Books | Shortlisted |
| 2017 | Nina Stibbe | Paradise Lodge | Penguin Random House | Shortlisted |
| 2017 | Simon Wroe | Here Comes Trouble | Orion Books | Shortlisted |
| 2018 | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded |
| 2019 | Nina Stibbe | Reasons to be Cheerful | Little, Brown and Company | Winner |
| 2019 | Jen Beagin | Vacuum in the Dark | Simon & Schuster | Shortlisted |
| 2019 | Kate Davies | In at the Deep End | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Shortlisted |
| 2019 | Roddy Doyle | Charlie Savage | Jonathan Cape | Shortlisted |
| 2019 | Lissa Evans | Old Baggage | Harper Perennial | Shortlisted |
| 2019 | Paul Ewen | Francis Plug: Writer in Residence | Galley Beggar Press | Shortlisted |
| 2020 | Matthew Dooley | Flake | Jonathan Cape | Winner |
| 2020 | Oisín Fagan | Nobber | John Murray | Shortlisted |
| 2020 | Jessica Francis Kane | Rules for Visiting | Granta | Shortlisted |
| 2020 | Jenny Offill | Weather | Granta | Shortlisted |
| 2020 | Alastair Puddick | 46% Better than Dave | Raven Crest Books | Shortlisted |
| 2020 | Hannah Rothschild | House of Trelawney | Bloomsbury | Shortlisted |
| 2021 | Guy Kennaway | The Accidental Collector | Mensch | Winner |
| 2021 | Dolly Alderton | Ghosts | Penguin Books | Shortlisted |
| 2021 | A. Naji Bakhti | Between Beirut and the Moon | Influx Press | Shortlisted |
| 2021 | Diksha Basu | Destination Wedding | Bloomsbury | Shortlisted |
| 2021 | Hilary Leichter | Temporary | Faber and Faber | Shortlisted |
| 2021 | Lauren Oyler | Fake Accounts | 4th Estate | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | Percival Everett | The Trees | Influx Press | Winner |
| 2022 | John Boyne | The Echo Chamber | Doubleday | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | Zakiya Dalila Harris | The Other Black Girl | Bloomsbury | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | Marian Keyes | Again, Rachel | Penguin Books, Michael Joseph | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | Andrew Lipstein | Last Resort | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | Sarah Lotz | Impossible | HarperCollins | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | Phoebe Luckhurst | The Lock-in | Penguin Books, Michael Joseph | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | Lucy Mangan | Are We Having Fun Yet? | Profile | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | Richard Osman | The Man Who Died Twice | Viking Press | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | Gary Shteyngart | Our Country Friends | Atlantic Books | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | Nina Stibbe | One Day I Shall Astonish the World | Viking Press | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | Joy Williams | Harrow | Profile | Shortlisted |
| 2023 | Bob Mortimer | The Satsuma Complex | Gallery Books | Winner |
| 2023 | Fergus Craig | Murder at Crime Manor | Sphere | Shortlisted |
| 2023 | James Hannaham | Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta | Europa Editions | Shortlisted |
| 2023 | Aravind Jayan | Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors | Serpent's Tail | Shortlisted |
| 2023 | India Knight | Darling | Fig Tree | Shortlisted |
| 2023 | Sophie McCartney | Mother Hens | HarperNorth | Shortlisted |
| 2024 | Ferdia Lennon | Glorious Exploits | Fig Tree | Winner |
| 2024 | Dolly Alderton | Good Material | Fig Tree | Shortlisted |
| 2024 | Kaliane Bradley | The Ministry of Time | Sceptre | Shortlisted |
| 2024 | Andrew Hunter Murray | A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering | Hutchinson Heinemann | Shortlisted |
| 2024 | Ferdia Lennon | Glorious Exploits | Fig Tree | Shortlisted |
| 2024 | Caroline O'Donoghue | The Rachel Incident | Virago | Shortlisted |
| 2024 | David Nicholls | You Are Here | Sceptre | Shortlisted |
| 2024 | Jen Sugden and Chris Sugden | High Vaultage | Gollancz | Shortlisted |