The Widmerpool Award
An annual Widmerpool Award is made to the public figure judged to have behaved in the most Widmerpudlian fashion during the previous twelve months. Nominations are proposed and voted upon by members of the Anthony Powell Society. Past winners have included:
- British Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg,
- Republican electoral advisor Karl Rove, and
- former newspaper editor Sir Max Hastings.
Misfortune has appeared to dog winners of the award, who receive "an engraved wrong sort of overcoat".
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