As a God Might Be by Neil Griffiths, The Future Won’t Be Long by Jarett Kobek and War Cry by Wilbur Smith (with David Churchill) are among the nominees for the Bad Sex in Fiction award this year. Introduced in 1993 by the Literary Review, the award aims to “draw attention to poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction”. The 2016 Bad Sex in Fiction award was given to Italian novelist and poet Erri De Luca -- called “writer of the decade” by a critic -- for his book, The Day Before Happiness. Judges were swayed by a sex scene between a mysterious woman and the protagonist, and said, “The winning entry is a reminder that, even in the wake of Brexit, Bad Sex knows no borders.”De Luca’s description of sex read:“My prick was a plank stuck to her stomach. She opened her legs, pulled up her dress and, holding my hips over her, pushed my prick against her opening.

Source: Hindustan Times November 24, 2017 05:48 UTC