Books by Paul Torday
Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
by Paul Torday
🏆 Winner of the 2007 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
A fisheries expert working for the British civil service is tasked with an impossible project—populating the desert wadis of Yemen with Scottish salmon—in the name of improving international relations. Told in the epistolary style, the narrative takes the form of emails, letters, Hansard transcripts, and newspaper articles. It was adapted into a hit romantic comedy starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt in 2011.
Interviews where books by Paul Torday were recommended
The Funniest Books of the 21st Century
This year, to mark its 25th anniversary, the Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction declared Marina Lewycka’s A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian to be their ‘winner of winners’, that is: the funniest book of the last twenty-five years. We asked comedian Tatty Macleod, one of the judges, about the process of sifting through their longlist of the previous winners.
