07 December 2011
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David Guterson wins Bad Sex in Fiction award from the Literary Review
The US author took the world's most dreaded literary prize for a reworking of the Oedipus story which includes such phrases as 'front parlour.' ...
The US author took the world's most dreaded literary prize for Ed King, a reworking of the Oedipus story which includes such phrases as 'front parlour.'
Fittingly for a winner whose book contains Carry On-esque vernacular like 'back door' and 'family jewels' in a sex scene, the prize was presented by Barbara Windsor at London's In & Out Club last night (6 December).
Guterson, best known for his 1994 debut Snow Falling on Cedars, wins a plaster foot, which he was unable to collect in person. 'Oedipus practically invented bad sex, so I'm not surprised,' he wisecracked, accepting the dubious honour with good grace.
The only non-fiction writer to have been nominated for the award, set up by Auberon Waugh in 1993, was former prime minister Tony Blair, for passages of purple prose in his 2010 autobiography A Journey.
Website: www.literaryreview.co.uk
Fittingly for a winner whose book contains Carry On-esque vernacular like 'back door' and 'family jewels' in a sex scene, the prize was presented by Barbara Windsor at London's In & Out Club last night (6 December).
Guterson, best known for his 1994 debut Snow Falling on Cedars, wins a plaster foot, which he was unable to collect in person. 'Oedipus practically invented bad sex, so I'm not surprised,' he wisecracked, accepting the dubious honour with good grace.
The only non-fiction writer to have been nominated for the award, set up by Auberon Waugh in 1993, was former prime minister Tony Blair, for passages of purple prose in his 2010 autobiography A Journey.
Website: www.literaryreview.co.uk
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