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Literary Review is a British literary periodical founded in 1979 by Anne Smith, head of the Department of English at Edinburgh University. Its offices are on Lexington Street in Soho
Soho

Soho is an area in the centre of the West End of London of London, England, in the City of Westminster. It is an entertainment district which for much of the later part of the 20th century had a reputation for its sex shops as well as its night life and film industry....
, and it has a circulation of 44,750. Britain's principal literary monthly, the magazine is also famous for its annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award.

Edited for many years by veteran journalist Auberon Waugh
Auberon Waugh

Auberon Alexander Waugh was a British author and journalist....
, it is now under the editorship of Nancy Sladek, and reviews a wide range of published books, including fiction, history and politics.






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Literary Review is a British literary periodical founded in 1979 by Anne Smith, head of the Department of English at Edinburgh University. Its offices are on Lexington Street in Soho
Soho

Soho is an area in the centre of the West End of London of London, England, in the City of Westminster. It is an entertainment district which for much of the later part of the 20th century had a reputation for its sex shops as well as its night life and film industry....
, and it has a circulation of 44,750. Britain's principal literary monthly, the magazine is also famous for its annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award.

Edited for many years by veteran journalist Auberon Waugh
Auberon Waugh

Auberon Alexander Waugh was a British author and journalist....
, it is now under the editorship of Nancy Sladek, and reviews a wide range of published books, including fiction, history and politics. Contributors include Nicky Haslam
Nicholas Haslam

Nicholas Ponsonby Haslam is British interior decorator....
.

Bad Sex in Fiction Award

Each year since 1993, Literary Review presents the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award to the author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
 who produces the worst description of a sex scene in a novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
. The award itself is in the form of a "semi-abstract trophy representing sex in the 1950s", which depicts a naked woman draped over an open book. The award was originally established by Rhoda Koenig, a literary critic, and Auberon Waugh
Auberon Waugh

Auberon Alexander Waugh was a British author and journalist....
, then editor of the Literary Review.

The given rationale 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".

Winners

Winners of the Bad Sex in Fiction award include:

  • 1993: Melvin Bragg, A Time to Dance
  • 1994: Philip Hook, The Stonebreakers
  • 1995: Philip Kerr
    Philip Kerr

    Philip Kerr is a United Kingdom author. He studied at the University of Birmingham and worked as an advertising copywriter for Saatchi and Saatchi before becoming a full-time writer....
    , Gridiron
  • 1996: David Huggins, The Big Kiss: An Arcade Mystery
  • 1997: Nicholas Royle
    Nicholas Royle

    Nicholas Royle is an English novelist born in Manchester in 1963.Royle has written five novels ? Counterparts, Saxophone Dreams, The Matter of the Heart, The Director?s Cut and Antwerp....
    , The Matter of the Heart
  • 1998: Sebastian Faulks
    Sebastian Faulks

    Sebastian Faulks Commander of the Order of the British Empire Royal Society of Literature is an acclaimed England novelist....
    , Charlotte Gray
    Charlotte Gray (novel)

    Charlotte Gray is a 1999 book by Sebastian Faulks and completes his loose trilogy of books about France with an account of the adventures of a young Scotswoman who becomes involved with the French resistance during the Second World War....
  • 1999: A. A. Gill
    A. A. Gill

    Adrian Anthony Gill is a United Kingdom newspaper columnist and writer, using the byline A. A. Gill. He is currently employed by The Sunday Times as their restaurant reviewer and television critic....
    , Starcrossed
  • 2000: Sean Thomas, Kissing England
  • 2001: Christopher Hart
    Christopher Hart (novelist)

    Christopher Hart is an England novelist and journalist.He was educated at Cheltenham College , Leicester University , Oxford Polytechnic and Birkbeck College, London, where he completed a PhD on W.B.Yeats....
    , Rescue Me
  • 2002: Wendy Perriam, Tread Softly
  • 2003: Aniruddha Bahal
    Aniruddha Bahal

    Aniruddha Bahal is the founder and editor-in-chief of . He has worked for India Today and Outlook and is also the co-founder and former CEO of Tehelka.com, the news website....
    , Bunker 13
    Bunker 13

    Bunker 13: A Novel is a 2003 novel about drugs, sex and espionage and is the first novel by Aniruddha Bahal. It achieved international attention and positive reviews....
  • 2004: Tom Wolfe
    Tom Wolfe

    Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr. , known as Tom Wolfe, is a best-selling United States author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s....
    , I Am Charlotte Simmons
    I Am Charlotte Simmons

    I Am Charlotte Simmons is a 2004 in literature novel by Tom Wolfe, concerning sexual and status relationships at the fictional Dupont University, closely modeled after Duke University and Stanford University....
  • 2005: Giles Coren
    Giles Coren

    Giles Coren is a United Kingdom journalist. He is the son of the late British writer and humourist Alan Coren and brother of journalist Victoria Coren....
    , Winkler ()
  • 2006: Iain Hollingshead
    Iain Hollingshead

    Iain Hollingshead is a United Kingdom freelance journalist and novelist.Iain writes feature articles for a range of publications, The Daily Telegraph in particular....
    , Twenty Something () ()
  • 2007: Norman Mailer
    Norman Mailer

    Norman Kingsley Mailer was an United States novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director.Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S....
    , The Castle in the Forest
    The Castle in the Forest

    The Castle in the Forest is the last novel by writer Norman Mailer, published in the year of his death, 2007. It is the story of Adolf Hitler childhood as seen through the eyes of Dieter, a demon sent to put him on his destructive path....
     ()
  • 2008: Rachel Johnson
    Rachel Johnson

    Rachel Johnson is a English journalist and author based in London.Johnson is the daughter of former Conservative MEP Stanley Johnson and artist Charlotte Johnson Wahl , and is the younger sister of the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson....
    , Shire Hell; John Updike
    John Updike

    John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ....
    , Lifetime Achievement Award


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