Head of Zeus
Och så har korta listan reducerats till en författare – Ben Okri har vunnit årets Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Det delades ut för 22:a gången av Literary Review:
”The purpose of the prize is to draw attention to poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction, and to discourage them. The prize is not intended to cover pornographic or expressly erotic literature.”
Ben Okri vann förmodligen Bad Sex in Fiction Award, ett av världens minst åtråvärda litterära priser, mycket tack vare en raket som brinner av lite lagom lägligt i slutet av en sexscen:
”Adrift on warm currents, no longer of this world, she became aware of him gliding into her. He loved her with gentleness and strength, stroking her neck, praising her face with his hands, till she was broken up and began a low rhythmic wail … The universe was in her and with each movement it unfolded to her. Somewhere in the night a stray rocket went off.”
Romanen heter The Age of Magic. Och apropå Okri ger Modernista ut tre titlar nästa höst.
Ola Wihlke
