'Bad Sex in Fiction' Awards climax with two winners
The Literary Review's judges couldn't settle on 'the year's most outstandingly awful scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel' - so they picked two
08 December 2019 - 00:00
In a magnificent troll of the calamity of the Booker this year - in which the award was given to two winners - the judges at the Literary Review awarded the prize for bad sex writing to two authors: Prix Goncourt winner Didier Decoin and British novelist John Harvey. (In the 26 years since the award was established in 1993, only three women have won.)..
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