The winner will be awarded with a jeroboam of Bollinger Special Cuvée, a case of Bollinger La Grande Année, the complete set of the Everyman's Library P.G. The 2021 winner will be announced on 23rd June, at a special 21st anniversary party. With 81 submitted books to choose from, we whittled them down to a shortlist of six exceptionally strong, and laugh out loud funny books." Over a few glasses of Bollinger, we agreed that it was a truly vintage 21st year for the prize. The judges are comedians Daliso Chaponda, Pippa Evans and Sindhu Vee, plus Justin Albert (Vice President of Hay Festival and Director of National Trust Wales), David Campbell (publisher, Everyman's Library) and broadcaster James Naughtie.ĭavid Campbell comments: "The judges of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction met on the first day it was allowed over lunch in the garden of The Goring Hotel to decide our shortlist. Written by a writer who is already at the very top of her game." The judges said: "Run to your bookshop, or if you are very brave go online, and buy Lauren Oyler's debut novel! It is a fabulously funny, profoundly scary, and terrifyingly insightful dive into the toxic and enticing maze that is online life.
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