The Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award was inaugurated by Auberon Waugh in 1993 to ‘draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it’. The prize is not intended to cover pornographic or expressly erotic literature, and is limited to the literary novel.
This year has seen a bountiful crop of passages, and the judges at Literary Review have whittled them down to a shortlist that contains both acclaimed authors and promising newcomers. The winner will be announced at a ceremony on Monday 25th November. This year’s nominees are:
Paul Theroux A Dead Hand (Hamish Hamilton)
Nick Cave The Death of Bunny Munro (Canongate)
Philip Roth The Humbling (Jonathan Cape)
Jonathan Littell The Kindly Ones (Chatto & Windus)
Amos Oz Rhyming Life and Death (Chatto & Windus)
John Banville The Infinities (Picador)
Anthony Quinn The Rescue Man (Jonathan Cape)
Simon Van Booy Love Begins in Winter (Beautiful Books)
Sanjida O’Connell The Naked Name of Love (John Murray)
Richard Milward Ten Storey Love Song (Faber & Faber)
Read the SHORTLISTED PASSAGES
Read some of the winning passages from PREVIOUS YEARS
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