Bridget Jones's Baby wins Helen Fielding a pig – and the Wodehouse prize

The fourth novel about the hapless romantic heroine wins the UK’s only award for comic writing

After twice nearly winning what she described as “the Oscar for comic writing”, Helen Fielding is finally set to see a pig named Bridget Jones, after she scooped the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction.

Fielding said she intended to boast about winning the prize, which bags the author naming rights to a Gloucestershire Old Spot pig, “as long as possible to anyone who will listen”.

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