/Jag skrev om Bad Sex Award-nomineringarena tidigare. Vinnaren uppmärksammades
t o m i SVT:s "Kulturnyheterns"... --AE
Ps. Glöm inte SFSF:s Sf-dag söndag, Kungsholmens bibl, Sthlm, start 12.30. /
https://literaryreview.co.uk/bad-sex-in-fiction-award
Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award
Each year since 1993, the Bad Sex in Fiction Award has honoured an author
who has produced an outstandingly bad scene of sexual description in an
otherwise good novel. The purpose of the prize is to draw attention to
poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in
modern fiction. The prize is not intended to cover pornographic or
expressly erotic literature.
The Award was established by Rhoda Koenig, a literary critic, and Auberon
Waugh, at that time editor of Literary Review.
Winner of the 25th Bad Sex in Fiction Award
Christopher Bollen has won the 25th annual Literary Review Bad Sex
in Fiction Award for The Destroyers (Scribner).
The award was announced at a lavish ceremony on Thursday 30 November at the
In & Out (Naval & Military) Club in St James’s Square, London, where the
400 guests raised a toast to the winner.
The judges of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award were swayed by a scene involving The
Destroyers’ protagonist, Ian, and his former girlfriend on the island of
Patmos, where their relationship has been rekindled: “She covers her
breasts with her swimsuit. The rest of her remains so delectably exposed.
The skin along her arms and shoulders are different shades of tan like
water stains in a bathtub. Her face and vagina are competing for my
attention, so I glance down at the billiard rack of my penis and testicles.”
Christopher Bollen is based in New York, and is editor at large of
Interview magazine. The Destroyers is his third novel. He was unable to
attend the ceremony. The judges said in a statement: “Christopher Bollen
has prevailed against strong competition. In the week that Prince Harry
announced his engagement to Meghan Markle, it seems only fitting that
Britain’s most eligible literary prize has been snapped up by an American.”
Among the other shortlisted books were The Seventh Function of Language by
Prix Goncourt winner Laurent Binet (“Bianca grabs Simon’s dick, which is
hot and hard as if it’s just come out of a steel forge, and connects it to
her mouth-machine”); Venetia Welby’s Mother of Darkness (“The green grass
curls around Tera’s left breast as she curves her sleek physique around
Matty’s diabolical torso like a vine. Paralysed, complete, the marble
statue of the lovers allows itself to be painted by the dawn’s lurid orange
spillage”); and War Cry by Wilbur Smith (“He kissed her and she responded
and the boundaries between them blurred, like two watercolours on a piece
of paper, joining as one to create something entirely new”).
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