Bad Sex in Fiction Award
The Bad Sex in Fiction Award is an annual prize given by the prestigious British magazine Literary Review to a contemporary novelist for the worst description of a sex scene.
The aim of the award is "in otherwise respectable contemporary novels" to "draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often carelessly written and redundant sexual passages in modern novels in order to prevent them in future" (former editor-in-chief Auberon Waugh , † 2001) .
The winner receives a “pretty, modern, semi-abstract sculpture that vaguely suggests sex” (Waugh).
Award winners
- 1993: Melvyn Bragg for A Time to Dance
- 1994: Philip Hook for The Stonebreakers
- 1995: Philip Kerr for Gridiron
- 1996: David Huggins for The Big Kiss: An Arcade Mystery
- 1997: Nicholas Royle for The Matter of the Heart
- 1998: Sebastian Faulks for Charlotte Gray
- 1999: AA Gill for Starcrossed
- 2000: Sean Thomas for Kissing England
- 2001: Christopher Hart for Rescue Me
- 2002: Wendy Perriam for Tread Softly
- 2003: Aniruddha Bahal for Bunker 13
- 2004: Tom Wolfe for I Am Charlotte Simmons (German: I am Charlotte Simmons)
- 2005: Giles Coren for Winkler
- 2006: Iain Hollingshead for Twenty Something
- 2007: Norman Mailer ( posthumously ) for The Castle in the Forest (German: Das Schloss im Wald)
- 2008: Rachel Johnson for Shire Hell, John Updike for his life's work
- 2009: Jonathan Littell for The Kindly Ones (German: Die Wohlgesinnnten )
- 2010: Rowan Somerville for The Shape of Her
- 2011: David Guterson for Ed King
- 2012: Nancy Huston for Infrarouge (English: Infrared, German: Infrared)
- 2013: Manil Suri for The City of Devi
- 2014: Ben Okri for The Age of Magic
- 2015: Morrissey for List of the Lost
- 2016: Erri De Luca for The Day Before Happiness
- 2017: Christopher Bollen for The Destroyers
- 2018: James Frey for Katerina
- 2019: Didier Decoin for The Office of Gardens and Ponds and John Harvey for Pax
Web links
- "Bad Sex" in the Literary Review
- Winner 1994-2004 ( Memento from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), BookHelpWeb.com
- “Literature Prize: Bad Sex? You won! ” , Spiegel Online , November 30, 2006
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Petra Steinberger: “A price for zero eroticism”, Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 30, 1998
- ↑ mea: “Trousers tightening up; The Bad Sex Award 2006 ", Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 1, 2006
- ^ "Sex in the pinstripe" ( Memento from April 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), ORF 2003
- ↑ "Puffing piston ': Norman Mailer wins Bad Sex Award" , Spiegel Online , November 28th 2007
- ↑ cf. Sherwin, Adam: Rachel Johnson . In: The Times , November 27, 2008, p. 15 (accessed via the LexisNexis Wirtschaft database )
- ↑ cf. "Is it hot in here, or is it just that I'm reading yet another John Updike book?" In: National Post , November 26, 2008, Arts & Life, p. AL3, accessed via the LexisNexis Economy database
- ↑ "Bad sex award goes to Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones" , The Guardian 30 November, 2009
- ^ "Bad Sex Award: Orgy in the face of a nuclear threat" , Spiegel online, December 4, 2013
- ↑ "Bad Sex Award 2014: 'When his hand brushed her nipple ...'" , Spiegel Online, December 4, 2014
- ↑ Morrissey scoops 'Bad Sex' award for debut novel , CNN on Dec. 2, 2015
- ↑ "Dubious Literature Award: Morrissey Writes Worst About Sex" , Spiegel online from December 2, 2015