Possible Best Literary Award Ever? December 2, 2010
Posted by pupfiction in Just for Fun, Of Interest, reading.Tags: bad sex in fiction award, jonathan franzen, literary awards, rowan somerville, UK
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Today I found out that the UK annually awards a “Bad Sex in Fiction Award”. Don’t you just love those randy Brits? According to Bloomberg.com, the award started in 1993 and was designed to, “draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it.” This year’s winner was Rowan Somerville for a passage in his novel, The Shape of Her. Runners up were Jonathan Franzen and Alastair Campbell. Check out the whole story here.

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