‘Bridget Jones’ author wins comic fiction prize, and a pig

LONDON — Helen Fielding’s latest book about the misadventures of indomitable singleton Bridget Jones has won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction, winning Fielding rewards that include champagne and a pig.

“Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries” was declared winner Thursday of the prize, named in honour of novelist P.G. Wodehouse.

The book sees Bridget uncertain which of her rival beaus — stalwart Mark Darcy or fickle Daniel Cleaver — is the father of her child.

It was released to accompany the movie of the same name.