Writers Alexander McCall Smith, Irvine Welsh, Caitlin Moran and Nina Stibbe among the six shortlisted for the 2015 award
Authors including Alexander McCall Smith, Irvine Welsh, Caitlin Moran and Nina Stibbe have been shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction. The six shortlisted novels are McCall Smith’s Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party, Welsh’s A Decent Ride, Joseph O’Neill’s The Dog, and three fiction debuts by female writers – Moran’s How To Build a Girl, Stibbe’s Man at the Helm and Helen Lederer’s Losing It. The winner will be announced just before the Hay festival, which runs from 21 to 31 May.
The 2015 Wodehouse prize shortlist was selected by a judging panel of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme presenter and author James Naughtie, Everyman’s Library publisher David Campbell, and Hay festival director and founder, Peter Florence.
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