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29/11/2005
Rushdie, Marquez, Theroux up for Bad Sex award
Noted authors Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Paul Theroux have
made it on to the longlist for this year's Literary Review Bad Sex in
Fiction award.
A sex scene from John Updike's latest novel, Villages, is also in the
running as is a piece in Marlon Brando's posthumously-released novel Fan
Tan, Ben Elton's The First Casualty and Richard and Judy winner Christine
Aziz's The Olive Readers.
The prize, which only targets literary fiction, is now in its 13th year.
Its stated aim is: "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, who will be announced on December 1 at the In and Out Club in
London, is awarded a semi-abstract statue representing sex in the 1950s and
a bottle of champagne, if he or she turns up.
Last year's winner, Tom Wolfe, was one of the very few recipients that
failed to attend.
Previous winners include AA Gill, Sebastian Faulks and Alan Titchmarsh.
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