'Men still say women aren't funny': Nina Stibbe wins Comedy women in print prize

Reasons to Be Cheerful wins award set up to correct ‘sexist imbalance’ in Wodehouse prize, having also won that honour in 2019

Nina Stibbe has won the Comedy women in print prize for her novel about a teenage dental assistant clawing her way to adulthood in 1980s Leicester, Reasons to Be Cheerful.

Stibbe, author of the bestselling memoir Love, Nina, has “an instinctive comedic touch”, said chair of judges Marian Keyes. Stibbe’s third autobiographical novel following young Lizzie Vogel, Reasons to Be Cheerful beat titles including Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson to the £3,000 prize. Candice Carty-Williams was named runner-up for her debut novel Queenie, about a young black woman in London, winning £1,000.

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