Alastair Campbell Up For 'Bad Sex' Literary Prize

Book2Book -Friday 19 Nov 2010

Alastair Campbell, Labour's former director of communications, has been nominated for the Bad Sex in Literature award for an "embarrassing passage of sexual description" in his novel Maya.

Jonathan Franzen's Freedom and The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas are also up for the tongue-in-cheek prize.

Fellow authors Martin Amis and Ian McEwan narrowly missed out on nominations, organisers said.
This year's winner will be announced at a London ceremony on 29 November.
Last year's prize went to Jonathan Littell for his novel The Kindly Ones.

www.literaryreview.co.uk/badsex.html

BBC

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/bad-sex-please-were-british-can-fictive-sex-ever-have-artistic-merit-2137741.html