Edward Pygge

Edward Pygge was a pseudonym used by Ian Hamilton, John Fuller, Clive James, Russell Davies, and Julian Barnes.

Davies also wrote poems and performed work using the name at a one-night show at the ICA in the Mall, unofficially called The Edward Pygge Revue.

John Fuller and Colin Falck also wrote one or two pieces as Pygge for The Review.

Later, in Hamilton's next magazine, The New Review, Barnes also wrote a column under the name.

The name also appeared in a 2003 BBC World Book Club programme discussing Barnes' 1984 novel, Flaubert's Parrot, when the presenter, Harriett Gilbert, read a question telephoned in by an "Edward Pygge.