british bad sex award

Forget about all those mills & boon novels… make way for Food-critic-turned-novelist Giles Coren, who won one of Britain’s most dreaded literary accolades on Thursday — the prize for bad sex in fiction!

The prize is awarded each year "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel."

Coren won it for a raunchy passage from his debut novel "Winkler" which included a description of the main character’s penis "leaping around like a shower dropped in an empty bath."

"It was the overexcited shower … which clinched the deal for Giles Coren," judges said. "That and the endlessly long sentence, which squirms and wriggles like the shower head."

 

Certainly a laugh a minute