Was it bad for you, too?
Each year the London-based Literary Review presents the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. This award commemmorates "redundant or egregious sex scenes in a novel that's otherwise quite good". The 2010 winner is The Shape of Her by Rowan Somerville, a novel that is only available in England thus far.
This year Canadian author Annabel Lyon was nominated for a scene in her novel The Golden Mean. In a Globe and Mail interview she noted that she was "deeply honoured" to be included among the finalists.
Other titles on the shortlist were:
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Heartbreak by Craig Raine
A Life Apart by Neel Mukherjee
Maya by Alastair Campbell
Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
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I’ve always followed the Bad Sex Award, since it was origin in the British magazine Literary Review (when Auberon Waugh was editor). I think Lady Diana presented the award at a gala dinner one year. Thanks for the reminder — haven’t thought of it in years.