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Cave, Roth and Oz up for Bad Sex
18.11.09 | Benedicte Page
The Bad Sex Award continues to be no respecter of literary reputations, with this year’s shortlist featuring Man Booker winner John Banville, American literary giant Philip Roth and eminent Israeli writer Amos Oz.
Nick Cave, Richard Milward and Jonathan Littell also feature on the latest list of writers up for the
accolade of writing the most embarassing passage of sexual description in a literary novel.
The complete shortlist is: Paul Theroux’s A Dead Hand (Hamish Hamilton), Philip Roth’s The Humbling and Anthony Quinn’s The Rescue Man (both Jonathan Cape), Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones and Amos Oz’s Rhyming Life and Death (both Chatto), Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro (Canongate), John Banville’s The Infinities (Picador), Simon Van Booy’s Love Begins in Winter (Beautiful Books), Sanjida O’Connell’s The Naked Name of Love (John Murray) and Richard Milward’s Ten Storey Love Song (Faber).
The lucky winner will be announced on 30th November. Rachel Johnson won last year for Shire Hell (Penguin), while John Updike was awarded a lifetime achievement, having been nominated four years in a row.
