Winner of the 2021 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction revealed
Guy Kennaway (Alan Smith/PA)
Guy Kennaway has won the 2021 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with his novel The Accidental Collector.
The book tells the story of an art dealer who meets a “penniless hippy” in a “hilarious story”, the organisers of the award said in a statement.
His book saw off competition from five other shortlisted authors.
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Dolly Alderton’s novel Ghosts, Between Beirut And The Moon by Naji Bakhti, Diksha Basu’s Destination Wedding, Temporary by Hilary Leichter and Lauren Oyler’s book Fake Accounts were also nominated.
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