Bad Sex Award grundades 1993 med målsättningen att “gently dissuading authors and publishers from including unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing or redundant passages of a sexual nature in otherwise sound literary novels”. The Guardian nämner två exempel från förra årets delade vinnare:
”Last year it was jointly won by Didier Decoin for The Office of Gardens and Ponds, which included the passage: ‘Miyuki felt as though she was manipulating a small monkey that was curling up its paws, and John Harvey for Pax, in which the characters, ‘embraced as if with violent holding they could weld the two of them one'”.
I år delas inte priset ut, på grund av att det hänt för mycket ledsamma saker 2020.
Ola Wihlke
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