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Uploaded by on May 26, 2008

It is not often an author is driven by circumstances to steal another author's pig, but recent scandalous events (see

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2282158,00.html

) forced my hand.

So, if you were at Hay-on-Wye and wondered why, at the Wodehouse Prize ceremony for Will Self, "the traditional pig could only appear in video footage displayed in the marquee", here is your explanation.

It is to be hoped that the organisers of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize will give in to my very reasonable demands and re-award the Prize to Alan Bennett. Otherwise, I'm afraid they will get their pig back sausage by sausage.

Harsh, I know, but when you mess with six comic novelists, somebody's going to get hurt.

-Julian Gough

http://www.juliangough.com/journal/2008/5/27/stealing-will-selfs-pig.html

London, Tipperary, Berlin
"The novel reinvented while you wait."

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  • Only days later this man attacked Martin Amis's ferret with a claw-hammer.

  • maybe he doesnt like america either.

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  • MEAT Clown Approved!

  • Minecraft end credits anyone?

  • This is the guy who wrote the end credits to Minecraft!

  • @zzxzqwq I heard him talk and I just don't think this is true

  • a pigknapping

  • They would have given the award to Alan Bennett if Will Self wasnt holding his Llama hostage - i think the situation is much more complex than you think. Maybe you could 'Llamanap' it back?

  • LOL! Firstly, does anyone know how genuine this and secondly does anyone know if Self found out?

  • it's Beach who helps steal Wodehouse pigs, not Jeeves (see Empress of Blandings)...

  • Julian, your ability to look inconspicuous at the best of times is negligible but whilst sneaking about a farm in that delightful attire but with that appalling bag it falls rapidly to zero.

  • Will Self is a euroskeptic Boo. If he hates europe so much why does he not move to the USA.

  • I have Will Self's pig to thank for introducing me to Toasted Heretic

  • An appropriate Woosterian response. Jeeves sounds slightly less enthusiastic! Love, Maxine

  • that'll show will self who's boss!

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