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05/12/2005
Bad Sex book prize goes to Giles Coren
Winkler, the debut novel from British author and journalist Giles Coren, has
won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
Coren competed with writers including John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Ben Elton
and Paul Theroux for this 13th annual Literary Review award for Bad Sex in
Fiction.
The award was set up to "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often
perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern
novel, and to discourage it".
The winner is awarded a statuette and a bottle of champagne - if he or she
turns up. Last year the award went to Tom Wolfe, who boycotted the ceremony.
Coren not only turned up to accept his award from Turner Prize-winning
artist Grayson Perry, he said that he wished he had written all the rest of
the shortlisted entries.
Rushdie, Marquez, Theroux up for Bad Sex award
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