Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (novel)

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

First edition
Author	Paul Torday
Language	English
Genre	Epistolary novel
Publisher	Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication date	2007
Publication place	United Kingdom
Pages	321 (1st edn.)

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a debut comedy novel written by Paul Torday and published in 2007.

Torday was 59 when the book was published. It is based on his extensive experiences of industry and government, as well as his personal interests in salmon fishing and the Middle East. Satirical themes in the novel focus on the 2000s Labour government of Tony Blair and its foreign policy dilemmas.^[1]

The novel won the 2007 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the 2007 Waverton Good Read Award. It was also shortlisted for the Newcomer of the Year Award at the 2008 Galaxy British Book Awards.^{[citation needed]}