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	BAD SEX IN FICTION AWARD - BOOK HELP WEB
		While most awards recognize the outstanding, the excellent, and the truly great works of literature, there are those awards that are handed out as fl eyes to those works that are truly noteworthy because they are so very bad.
		The actual prize is an abstract statue representing sex in the 1950s.
		This annual award is organized by the London-based Literary Review and was founded in 1993 as an attempt to discourage such painful descriptions of sex.
	www.bookhelpweb.com /awards/badsex/winners.htm (417 words)

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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/award.html (9094 words)

	LISNews.org \| The longlisted passages for the Bad Sex in Fiction award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The longlisted passages for the Bad Sex in Fiction award
		The longlisted passages for the Bad Sex in Fiction award
		Sex is sex; a sex scene isn't the best time to try and be clever.
	books.lisnews.org /Books/05/11/29/1929225.shtml (307 words)

	WTAworld.com - The winner of Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2002 will be named Tuesday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Eleven novelists have been nominated for the 10th annual award which aims to highlight and discourage "crude, tasteless and often perfunctory" sex scenes.
		The annual Literary Review Bad Sex prize is awarded to the worst description of sex in a contemporary novel.
		"Sex can still be such an unknown subject that the secrets of the bedroom are a real area for novelists to explore, especially to shed light on character," she added.
	www.wtaworld.com /printthread.php?t=47245 (712 words)

	Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind: Let's talk about sex--in fiction
		I don't think that's an accident, because sex is such an emotional act--even when the distinct lack of them are involved--so in order for me to depict what's happening, I need that writerly distance in place to let the characters speak, and think, for themselves.
		Sex has a function in a story, but often, at least in crime fiction, it's best described by it's lead-in or it's aftermath, with vague descriptions of the act itself.
		The sex scenes were hot, and possibly offensive to some, but not "gratuitous" (again, a word i see a lot and STILL do not comprehend) because they got to the nature of 2 people and their relationship.
	www.sarahweinman.com /confessions/2004/12/lets_talk_about.html (3041 words)

	Bad Sex in Fiction Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
	www.literature-awards.com /bad_sex_in_fiction_award.htm (502 words)

	Wendy Perriam: Bad Sex is OK in The AnswerBank: Arts & Literature
		Wendy Perriam: Bad Sex is OK Being nominated two years running for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award - the first writer in the 8-year history of the award to be so honoured - may seem a dubious distinction for a serious author, but novelist and short-story writer Wendy Perriam isn't remotely phased by it.
		The awards themselves are a bit of a send-up, of course, but there are really weighty people on the shortlist, such as Jonathan Franzen.
		The award - a semi-abstract statue representing sex in the 1950s - was presented this year by Jerry Hall, who quipped: 'Bad sex writing is like bad sex - both are better than nothing.' She then went on to say: 'It gives me great pleasure to present someone with an award for bad sex.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article2434.html (595 words)

	Poets&Writers, Inc.
		Iain Hollingshead, a twenty-six-year-old British novelist, has won the fourteenth annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award for his novel Twenty Something: The Quarter-Life Crisis of Jack Lancaster (Duckworth, 2006).
		The award, sponsored by the Literary Review, a monthly magazine published in London, is given "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it."
		Previous winners of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award include Sebastian Faulks and Tom Wolfe.
	www.pw.org /mag/is_badsex.htm (158 words)

	Hot Buttered Death: Oh the irony
		Now in its 11th year, the dubious honor is awarded by the Literary Review magazine for the most inept description of sexual intercourse in a novel.
		This is ironic, of course, because our Gordon's famed sexual prowess—tantric sex sessions lasting 12 hours and all of that—was itself a piece of bad fiction.
		Sting, 51, who once claimed he and wife Trudi Styler were advocates of tantric sex and could make love for hours at a time, has confessed on Britain's ITV that, in fact, he "sexed up" claims about his love life in order to impress Bob Geldof on a drunken night out.
	hotbuttereddeath.ubersportingpundit.com /archives/004001.html (221 words)

	Rushdie, Tejpal shortlisted for award : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The "Bad Sex in Fiction" award for 2003 was given to another Indian writer, Aniruddha Bahal, for his book, Bunker 13.
		The award is given for the worst, most redundant or embarrassing description of physical intimacy in a novel.
		The winner, who will be announced on Dec 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.
	hindustantimes.com /news/181_1559579,00110004.htm (318 words)

	Literary Awards, a beginners guide to. Book Prizes - What do they mean? The Booker, Whitbread, Orange Prize, The ...
		The awards are given in five categories (Poetry, Biography, First Novel, Novel, and Children's Literature) to authors who exemplify the best of contemporary British writing and who have lived in Great Britain or Ireland for at least three years.There is a panel of 3 judges in each category who select a short list and winner.
		The award is judged by a panel of three novelists and is awarded to the best published work of fiction by a contemporary American writer.
		In Fiction the overall award is The Deutz Medal for Fiction, with the winner receiving NZ$15,000.
	www.book-club.co.nz /features/awards.htm (3031 words)

	Bad sex and fiction awards new author \| Metro.co.uk
		Hollingshead, 25, who received his award from rocker Courtney Love at a London ceremony, said he was delighted to become the prize's youngest-ever winner.
		Now in its 14th year, the award was established by the Literary Review to celebrate truly cringe-worthy erotic writing.
		Willcocks praised the Bad Sex prize as "a much better guide to a good read than those purveyors of powerful sleeping drugs, the Booker, the Pulitzer, the Goncourt et.
	www.metro.co.uk /news/article.html?in_article_id=27290&in_page_id=34 (573 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Writer Sean Thomas wins Bad Sex in Fiction award
		Thomas won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award for a passage from his second novel, 'Kissing England'.
		The award was created by The Literary Review Magazine for the worst, most redundant or embarrassing description of the sexual act in modern novels.
		Thomas said his portrayal of sex was meant to be 'provocative...funny and totally outrageous'.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2000/1130/thomass.html (138 words)

	CNN.com - Books - Stereo sex wins bad award - November 30, 2000
		But bad sex is getting harder to find, say the event organisers -- who are claiming some of the credit.
		Robert Posner, of Literary Review, said the awards were created to mock a tendency to include a sex scene, however redundant, in every book, but he believes the awards now make writers think long and hard about relevance -- and realism -- for fear of nomination.
		Posner is however keen to point out that the award is largely for fun and authors are generally "delighted" to be short listed, if only for the publicity.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/books/news/11/29/award (658 words)

	The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
		Since 1982 the English Department at San Jose State University has sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.
		No less impressively, Lytton coined phrases that have become common parlance in our language: "the pen is mightier than the sword," "the great unwashed," and "the almighty dollar" (the latter from The Coming Race, now available from the Broadview Press).
		Conscripted numerous times to be a judge in writing contests that were, in effect, bad writing contests but with prolix, overlong, and generally lengthy submissions, he struck upon the idea of holding a competition that would be honest and -- best of all -- invite brief entries.
	www.bulwer-lytton.com (1181 words)

	Ananova - Bunker 13 author wins bad sex award
		Excerpts from his award-winning sex scene - involving a woman who drops her trousers to reveal a swastika shaven into an intimate area - were read out to the audience.
		The judges applauded the "exuberance and energy" of Bahal's fictional sexual encounters and described his writing style as "Andy McNab meets Jilly Cooper".
		The award honours the year's most embarrassing and inept description of sexual intercourse in a novel.
	www.ananova.com /news/story/sm_843972.html?menu=news.weirdworld.sexlife (247 words)

	Bunion book wins Bad Sex award - theage.com.au
		Her winning entry was a scene in which the 30-something heroine, sent to a geriatric nursing home to convalesce after a botched bunion operation, has sex with her husband while fantasising about her foot surgeon.
		"The only thing I've ever won before was a copy of the Bible for an essay on religious doctrine, which is rather different from tonight's award," she said.
		"Sex was never discussed either at home or at school and I never had any sex education.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/12/04/1038950081875.html (221 words)

	Indian writer wins Bad Sex Award- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The award is presented annually by the Literary Review journal for the most embarrassing and inept description of sexual intercourse in a novel.
		The "Bad Sex" judge saluted the "exuberance and energy" of the writing, which upstaged other nominees including John Updike, Paul Theroux and Paulo Coelho.
		The awards were presented by singer Sting in London.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/339094.cms (270 words)

	Bad Sex in Fiction Prize
		The winner of the 2001 Bad Sex in Fiction Award was announced last night at the annual award ceremony.
		Taking a cue from the annual British Bad Sex in Fiction Prize, a Canadian columnist, novelist and publisher seek out the worst sex scenes of all time in Canadian literature.
		Wendy Perriam won this year's Bad Sex in Fiction Award for her novel Tread Softly.
	www.dazereader.com /badsexinfiction.htm (1339 words)

	Pejmanesque: AT LEAST HE'S GOOD HUMORED ABOUT IT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The winner of this year's Bad Sex in Fiction Award says he can see the funny side in winning the prize.
		Mr Bahal won the award, presented in London by Sting on Wednesday night, for an extract from his novel Bunker 13.
		Mr Bahal said he was happy to accept an award for sexually explicit writing because in India there was too much censorship.
	www.pejmanesque.com /archives/005140.html (274 words)

	The longlisted passages for the Bad Sex in Fiction award \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		The longlisted passages for the Bad Sex in Fiction award
		The longlisted passages for the Bad Sex in Fiction award
		A flock of crows, six or eight, raucously rasping at one another, thrashed into the top of an oak on the edge of the square of sky.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1652812,00.html (1514 words)

	DNA - World - Rushdie, Tejpal compete for bad sex prize - Daily News & Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Perhaps the most dreaded of British literary prizes, the award was created by The Literary Review for the 'worst, most redundant or the most embarrassing description of physical intimacy in a novel'.
		The award, in its thirteenth year, is normally awarded in London's In and Out Club.
		The prize, which only targets works of fiction, aims "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it".
	dnaindia.com /report.asp?NewsID=12000 (324 words)

	Learn more about List of prizes, medals, and awards in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Prince of Asturias Awards - Achievement in the sciences, public affairs, humanities
		Carnegie Prize, the highest award for painting in the world
		Janusz A. Zajdel Award - award given by Polish fandom
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_prizes__medals__and_awards.html (315 words)

	Literary News in Buzzwords - 3 A.M. Magazine
		The aim of the prize 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'.
		An awards ceremony is held each year and, surprisingly, the winner generally turns up to collect the award, which is a semi-abstract statue representing sex in the 1950s.
		By the 1960s, British fiction offered a safe haven for a self-conscious and loosely organised band of 'experimentalists', whose mission -- if not in so many words -- was to sweep forward the limits of the novel to some remote plateau where 'social realism', the great experimental bugbear, was no more than a genteel memory.
	www.3ammagazine.com /buzzwords/2002_nov.html (13389 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Erotic editor wins bad sex prize
		Mr Hart, who is also the literary editor of the Erotic Review, was presented with the award by Jerry Hall at a ceremony on Tuesday evening.
		The annual award is organised by the Literary Review, and was founded by the literary critics Rhoda Koenig and the late Auberon Waugh in 1993.
		Presenting the award, a semi-abstract statue representing sex in the 1950s, Jerry Hall said: "Bad sex writing is like bad sex - both are better than nothing.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1693278.stm (362 words)

	Literary Review - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The thirteenth annual award of Britain's most dreaded literary prize was given on December 1st to Giles Coren, for his novel 'Winkler',published by Jonathan Cape.
		The award took place at London's In and Out Club and was presented by Turner prize-winning artist, Grayson Perry.
		Coren received the award to the cheers of the assembled company, who were reminded by Alexander Waugh that it was not a booby prize, but an award for bravery.
	www.literaryreview.co.uk /badsexinfiction.htm (117 words)

	Stiff competition for Bad Sex award \| News \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		The longlist for this year's Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award, announced last Friday, confirms that Mars-Jones's prediction was on the money.
		There is also what one must assume is intentional humour in Ben Elton's description of a nurse and her cries of "gosh!" and "tally ho!" during sex from The First Casualty.
		Last year's winner, Tom Wolfe, was one of the very few recipients to fail to attend; he later criticised the judges for failing to recognise the irony contained in the winning passage from I Am Charlotte Simmons.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,1652789,00.html (547 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Tom Wolfe wins bad sex award
		Tom Wolfe, the American author and journalist, has been awarded this year's prize for bad sex in fiction.
		The prize is awarded annually by the Literary Review "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel".
		Wolfe was given the prize for scenes in his latest novel "I am Charlotte Simmons", a tale of campus life at an exclusive American university.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/13/uwolfe.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/12/13/ixportaltop.html (125 words)

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