Novelist admits to ‘grudge’ against comic fiction prize that has never shortlisted her work, and only gone to a woman three times in 18 years
Marian Keyes has revealed that she has a “grudge” against the “sexist imbalance” of the Wodehouse prize for comic fiction, which has deemed only three female writers funny enough to win the award in 18 years.
Keyes was speaking at the Hay literary festival, where the winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse award for comic fiction is traditionally announced. This year, however, judges declined to award the prize, announcing in May that none of the 62 books submitted “incited the level of unanimous laughter we have come to expect”.
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