PG Wodehouse
- English
- Writer
Press clippings
Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction 2023 shortlist revealed
Books by India Knight, James Hannaham, Sophie McCartney, Fergus Craig, Aravind Jayan and Bob Mortimer have been shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2023.
British Comedy Guide, 4th October 2023How dare they rewrite PG Wodehouse?
Sensitivity readers have no right to meddle with his pristine and perfect prose, says Simon Evans.
Simon Evans, Spiked, 17th April 2023Indie booksellers invited to vote for final Wodehouse title in new PRH anniversary series
Penguin Random House's Hutchinson Heinemann is inviting independent booksellers to select a PG Wodehouse title to be reissued as part of a new series celebrating the 120th anniversary of the author's first novel.
Lauren Brown, The Bookseller, 13th May 2022For sale: a £5.6m flat on the street that inspired Jeeves & Wooster
Dunraven Street was home to both PG Wodehouse and the murdered politician whose story was the beginning of Jeeves.
Melissa Lawford, The Telegraph, 2nd May 2022Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie reunite for new film
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are reuniting on screen for the first time in more than a decade. Animated film The Canterville Ghost, based on the short story by Oscar Wilde, has been in development for 11 years but is only now in production.
British Comedy Guide, 1st June 2021Daliso Chaponda joins judging panel for Wodehouse book contest
Daliso Chaponda has joined the judging panel for the 2021 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.
British Comedy Guide, 5th February 2021PG Wodehouse: India still holds a flame for the author
PG Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, was the most English novelist imaginable. His comic world was old-fashioned well before he died 45 years ago - crammed with disapproving aunts in hats, eccentric aristocrats and wealthy young men about town getting into scrapes. But he has countless fans around the world - not least in India, a country Wodehouse never set foot in.
Vincent Dowd, BBC, 27th November 2020Why the funniest books are also the most serious
The fiction that makes us laugh the most is, paradoxically, often the most profound and intelligent, argues John Self. So why isn't it being rewarded?
John Self, BBC, 10th November 2020Wodehouse Prize: Nina Stibbe wins
The third and final entry in a semi-autobiographical trilogy has netted an author an annual award for the funniest book. Nina Stibbe's Reasons To Be Cheerful clinched the 2019 Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.
BBC, 8th May 2019Wodehouse Prize: Pig named after Bridget Jones's Baby
A pig is to be named Bridget Jones's Baby after the novel won the Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction.
BBC, 18th May 2017