Bad Sex in Fiction Awards Soft On Bad Writing
Just like in real life, sometimes bad sex happens in books – and when it does, it’s time to award the uninspired writers who failed to perform and deliver. That’s where the Bad Sex in Fiction awards come in.
Complied and awarded by Literary Review magazine, this year’s nominees include singer Nick Cave (from the Bad Seeds), Booker winner John Banville and veteran novelist Philip Roth. To make the short list, authors are awarded for “crude, tasteless [and] perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description.”
Past winners include AA Gill, Sebastian Faulks, Tom Wolfe and Melvyn Bragg.
Check out some quotes from the esteemed nominees:
The Death of Bunny Munroe by Nick Cave
“Bunny lies on his back on the sofa. He is naked and his clothes sit in sad, little heaps on the living room floor.”
The Infinites by John Banville
“He takes a floating step forward…She puts her hands flat against his chest and leans into him in a simulacrum of a swoon, making a mewling sound.”
Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy
“For those final moments, we existed seamlessly – all memory negated by a desire that both belonged to us and controlled us.”
“After, we kept very still, like the only two roots of the forest.”
