The Literary Review's annual Bad Sex in Fiction award
has been won by Canadian author Nancy Huston for her 14th work of fiction,
Infrared.
It tells the
story of a photographer who specialises in taking infrared snaps of her lovers
during sex.
She beat the
likes of Tom Wolfe who won the dubious accolade eight years ago.
Huston, who
becomes only the third woman to win the award, writes primarily in French and
translates her books into English.
Sentences from
her novel such as: "Kamal and I are totally immersed in flesh, that
archaic kingdom that brings forth tears and terrors, nightmares, babies and
bedazzlements," caught the judges' attention.
Huston, whose
other books include Fault Lines and Plainsong, lives in Paris and was unable to
attend the prize ceremony at the In and Out Naval and Military Club in London.
In a statement,
she said: "I hope this prize will incite thousands of British women to
take close-up photos of their lovers' bodies in all states of array and
disarray."
Her publisher
accepted the prize on her behalf.
The ceremony is
now in its 20th year, having been established by Auberon Waugh in 1993.
The award is
run by The Literary Review, which says its purpose 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".
Previous
winners include Norman Mailer, AA Gill and Melvyn Bragg and David Guterson.
Source: BBC
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