Writer in frame for prize

IAN McEwan has been shortlisted for a comic fiction award celebrating the spirit of novelist PG Wodehouse – where the prize includes a pig being named after the winning book.

By The Newsroom

Published 27th Apr 2010, 10:58 BST

Updated 27th Apr 2010, 12:02 BST

The best-selling Atonement author is in the running for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.