This time it is the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2009.
Jonathan Littell has won the seventeenth annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award, for The Kindly Ones (Chatto & Windus). The prize (a plaster foot) was presented by award-winning actor Charles Dance. It was accepted on Littell's behalf by his editor at Chatto & Windus, Alison Samuel.
The awards were announced at a lavish ceremony on Monday 30th November 2009, at the In & Out (Naval & Military) Club in St James's Square, where the 400 guests raised a toast to the winner.
The Kindly Ones, originally published in French, won the Prix Goncourt in 2006. It has sold over a million copies in Europe.
And Oz?
Here:
Other shortlisted authors this year included Paul Theroux, Nick Cave, Philip Roth, Amos Oz, Anthony Quinn, John Banville, Richard Milward, Sanjida O'Connell and Simon Van Booy.
Oz's selection is from "Rhyming Life and Death" and starts off:
She holds him tight and squeezes her body to his, sending delightful sailing boats tacking to and fro across the ocean of his back. With her fingertips she sends foam-flecked waves scurrying over his skin...
Sorry, that's as far as we go at this blog.
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