{"id":103040,"date":"2017-05-18T01:51:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T05:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=103040"},"modified":"2017-05-18T01:51:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T05:51:02","slug":"bridget-jones-author-wins-comic-fiction-prize-and-a-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/18\/bridget-jones-author-wins-comic-fiction-prize-and-a-pig\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bridget Jones&#8217; author wins comic fiction prize, and a pig"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_103041\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103041\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/534252_362741813770913_1596600379_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103041\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/534252_362741813770913_1596600379_n.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cBridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries\u201d was declared winner of the prize named in honour of novelist P.G. Wodehouse. (Photo: Bridget Jones's Diary\/ Facebook)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/534252_362741813770913_1596600379_n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/534252_362741813770913_1596600379_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cBridget Jones&#8217;s Baby: The Diaries\u201d was declared winner of the prize named in honour of novelist P.G. Wodehouse. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BridgetJonessDiary\/\">Bridget Jones&#8217;s Diary\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LONDON \u2013 Helen Fielding&#8217;s latest book about the misadventures of indomitable singleton Bridget Jones won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction Thursday, gaining the writer rewards that include champagne and a pig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBridget Jones&#8217;s Baby: The Diaries\u201d was declared winner of the prize named in honour of novelist P.G. Wodehouse.<\/p>\n<p>The book sees Bridget uncertain which of her rival beaus \u2013 stalwart Mark Darcy or fickle Daniel Cleaver \u2013 is the father of her child.<\/p>\n<p>It was released to accompany the movie of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>Fielding will receive a Gloucester Old Spot pig, a jeroboam of champagne and a set of Wodehouse novels at the May 27 Hay Festival in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The author said she is \u201ccompletely overjoyed to win the pig.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previous winners include Ian McEwan and the late Terry Pratchett.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2013 Helen Fielding&#8217;s latest book about the misadventures of indomitable singleton Bridget Jones won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":103041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[19255,19256,19257],"class_list":["post-103040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-bridget-jones","tag-comic-fiction-prize","tag-pig","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}