Novelists who have strayed into the more intimate realms in their recent writing will have breathed a sigh of relief on Tuesday after the Literary Review announced it had cancelled this year’s Bad sex in fiction awards. The award’s judges said they took the decision because they felt “the public had been subjected to too many bad things this year to justify exposing it to bad sex as well”. But the judges warned authors not to take the cancellation as a “licence to write bad sex”. “Authors are reminded that cybersex and other forms of home entertainment fall within the purview of this award. I thought I wrote about sex pretty well, actually.”Some authors take the win in good spirits.

Source: The Guardian December 08, 2020 10:52 UTC