Writers accept awards for Bad Sex
There cannot be much good in bad sex, unless
maybe it wins you a prize.
There cannot be much good in bad sex, unless maybe it wins you a prize.
Two authors put on a brave face at being recognized for one of literatures most dubious accolades — the Bad Sex in Fiction Award — in a ceremony at London’s In & Out Club in upmarket St. James’s Square late Wednesday.
The prize was presented by American singer Courtney Love.
What organizers call Britain’s “most dreaded literary prize” went to first time novelist Iain Hollingshead and “Twentysomething” for the “passage considered to be the most redundant in an otherwise excellent novel.”
The award sponsors at Literary Review magazine said it was Hollingshead’s “bulging trousers” which put him ahead of runner-up Tim Willocks for “The Religion.”
Now in its 14th year, the prize aims “to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it.”
I wonder if they’ve considered bad writing — or good writing — about no sex?
Posted: Sat - December 2, 2006 at 05:41 AM