Bad Sex in Fiction Award

Bad Sex in Fiction Award

The "Literary Review" Bad Sex in Fiction Award is an award given annually to the author who produces the worst description of a sex scene in a novel.

The award is in the form of a "semi-abstract trophy representing sex in the 1950s"cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2540197.stm
title=Third time 'lucky' for bad sex winner
accessdate=2007-11-27
publisher=BBC News
date=2005-12-03] , which depicts a naked woman draped over an open book. It has been presented each year since 1993 by the "Literary Review", a London literary journal. The award was originally established by Rhoda Koenig, a literary critic, and Auberon Waugh, then editor of the "Literary Review".

The given rationale is "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it".

Winners

Winners of the Bad Sex in Fiction award include:

*1993: Melvyn Bragg, "A Time to Dance"
*1994: Philip Hook, "The Stonebreakers"
*1995: Philip Kerr, "Gridiron"
*1996: David Huggins, "The Big Kiss: An Arcade Mystery"
*1997: Nicholas Royle, "The Matter of the Heart"
*1998: Sebastian Faulks, "Charlotte Gray"
*1999: A. A. Gill, "Starcrossed"
*2000: Sean Thomas, "Kissing England" [cite press release
title=Sean Thomas wins the Bad Sex in Fiction Award
publisher=PR Newswire
accessdate=2007-11-27
url=http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=60086]
*2001: Christopher Hart, "Rescue Me"
*2002: Wendy Perriam, "Tread Softly"
*2003: Aniruddha Bahal, "Bunker 13"
*2004: Tom Wolfe, "I Am Charlotte Simmons"
*2005: Giles Coren, "Winkler" [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4488848.stm
title=Bad sex book prize for journalist
accessdate=2007-11-27
publisher=BBC News
date=2005-12-01]
*2006: Iain Hollingshead, "Twenty Something" [cite news
url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15952952/
title=First-time author wins Bad Sex in Fiction honor
accessdate=2007-11-27
publisher=Associated Press
date=2006-11-29]
*2007: Norman Mailer, "The Castle in the Forest" [cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7115451.stm |title=Late Mailer wins 'bad sex' award |accessdate=2007-11-27
publisher=BBC News |date=2007-11-27 |format= |work=]

ee also

*Purple prose

References

External links

* [http://www.bookhelpweb.com/awards/badsex/winners.htm Award winners 1994-2004] , "BookHelpWeb"
* [http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/badsex.html Literary Review]


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