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December 8, 2020 04:47 pm GMT
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Award for Bad Sex in Fiction cancelled due to enough bad things in 2020
The Literary Review has cancelled its Bad Sex in Fiction Award for 2020 because "the public had been subjected to too many bad things this year to justify exposing it to bad sex as well," according to the organizers. From The Guardian:
— Read the restThe prize was set up in 1993 by Auberon Waugh, with the intention of "gently dissuading authors and publishers from including unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing or redundant passages of a sexual nature in otherwise sound literary novels".
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/08/award-for-bad-sex-in-fiction-cancelled-due-to-enough-bad-things-in-2020.html
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