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2002 Wendy Perriam has won the tenth annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award for a passage in her novel, depicting pin-striped sex, Tread Softly | Hardcover
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The winning passage: "Weirdly, he was clad in pin-stripes at the same time as being naked. Pin-stripes were erotic, the uniform of fathers, two-dimensional fathers. Even Mr. Hughes's penis had a seductive pin-striped foreskin."
Wendy Perriam, who has been nominated for the prize three times in a row, said that she was "stunned but pleased" by her win, insisting that the winning scene had been intended to be humorous.
Even literature awards have their lighter side (or dark side, dependent upon your view). The most dreaded of British literary prizes is considered by some to be the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The honor (ahem) was created by The Literary Review for the worst, most redundant or embarrassing description of physical joining, in a novel.
Past winners of the award include TV arts presenter Melvyn Bragg, Nicholas Royle and Philip Kerr.
A. A. Gill proudly displayed his literary 'prowess' on his books covers.
The bestowal of honors took place at the In and Out Club in London.
2002 Wendy Perriam has won the tenth annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award for a passage in her novel, depicting suited sex, Tread Softly | Hardcover
2001 Christopher Hart's second novel, Rescue Me | Paperback has won the ninth annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award for the year's worst fictional description of the sexual act. Or as CNN so aptly put it, "Hart has topped all comers..."
The winning passage: "Her hand is moving away from my knee and heading north. Heading unnervingly and with a steely will towards the pole ... Ever northward moves her hand, while she smiles languorously at my right ear. And when she reaches the north pole, I think in wonder and terror -- she will surely want to pitch her tent."
2000 Sean Thomas Kissing England | Paperback
"It is time, time ... Now. Yes. She is so small and compact and yet she has all the necessary features ... Shall I compare thee to a Sony Walkman. She is his own Toshiba, his dinky little JVC, his sweet Aiwa ... Aiwa"
1999 A. A. Gill Starcrossed | Paperback
1998 Sebastian Faulks Charlotte Gray "Meanwhile her ears were filled with the sound of a soft but frantic gasping and it was some time before she identified it as her own." | Paperback | Audio Cassette (Abridged) | Audio Cassette (Unabridged) | Audio CD | Paperback Amazon UK
1997 Nicholas Royle The Matter of the Heart: she made a noise somewhere between a beached seal and a police siren" | Paperback
1996 David Huggins The Big Kiss: An Arcade Mystery: "Liz squeaked like wet rubber" | Hardcover | Paperback
1995 Philip Kerr Gridiron: "Detaching mind from over-eager gnomon and its exquisitely appointed, shadowy task, he began to make love to her." Also published as The Grid | Audio Cassette Abridged | Paperback | Paperback UK
1994 Philip Hook The Stonebreakers: "Their jaws ground in feverish mutual mastication. Saliva and sweat. Sweat and saliva. There was a purposeful shedding of clothing." | Audio Cassette unabridged edition | Paperback Amazon UK
I wish to thank Harry Andrews for providing a more complete list.
I do believe the entire list would make a great fun set (no pun intended) to have. "And this part of my library is the Bad Sex in Fiction Award Winners"!
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