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Nov 21 2008
The shortlist for one of the few literary awards that writers don't want to
win has been announced. The shortlist for this year's Literary Review Bad
Sex in Fiction award includes Simon Montefiore for Sashenka, John Updike
for The Widows of Eastwick, Russell Banks for The Reserve and
Paulo Coelho for Brida. Former winners include Tom Wolfe, AA Gill,
Sebastian Faulks and Melvyn Bragg.
The bad sex awards, to be announced in London on November 25, were set up by
Auberon Waugh "with the aim of gently dissuading authors and publishers from
including unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing or redundant passages of a
sexual nature in otherwise sound literary novels".
Last year's award was given posthumously to Norman Mailer for his final novel
The Castle in the Forest, in which a male member is described as being "as
soft as a coil of excrement". "It was the excrement that tipped the balance,"
admitted Philip Womack, assistant editor of the Literary Review, at the time.
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