Morrissey wins bad sex award for love scenes in debut novel List of the Lost - The Guardian
Singer’s description of a ‘giggling snowball of full-figured copulation’ helped him gain dubious victory
by Nicola Slawson
Excerpt:
Singer Morrissey’s reference to a “bulbous salutation” in his debut novel has helped him win the bad sex award.
Sex scenes in his book List of the Lost swayed the judges, it was announced at a lavish ceremony presented by Nancy Dell’Olio on Tuesday.
Established in 1993 by the Literary Review’s then editor, Auberon Waugh, the aim of the Bad Sex in Fiction awards is to draw attention to “poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction” with the hope of discouraging them.
...Morrissey, who follows in the footsteps of Melvyn Bragg, Rachel Johnson and Sebastian Faulks in winning the dubious award, was unable to attend due to touring commitments. He was also unavailable for comment.
UPDATE Dec. 3:
Excerpt from CNN article:
Morrissey was not able to attend the lavish ceremony in London, citing a busy touring schedule.
The organizer joked that this was down to the decision to serve meat canapés -- Morrissey is a die-hard vegetarian.
Music critic Charles Shaar Murray accepted the prize on Morrissey's behalf.
Murray said: "Ladies and gentleman in an ideal world, this award would be received by Morrissey. Or by somebody who publishes Morrissey. Or by somebody who likes Morrissey.
"Unfortunately no such person could be found."
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Singer’s description of a ‘giggling snowball of full-figured copulation’ helped him gain dubious victory
by Nicola Slawson
Excerpt:
Singer Morrissey’s reference to a “bulbous salutation” in his debut novel has helped him win the bad sex award.
Sex scenes in his book List of the Lost swayed the judges, it was announced at a lavish ceremony presented by Nancy Dell’Olio on Tuesday.
Established in 1993 by the Literary Review’s then editor, Auberon Waugh, the aim of the Bad Sex in Fiction awards is to draw attention to “poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction” with the hope of discouraging them.
...Morrissey, who follows in the footsteps of Melvyn Bragg, Rachel Johnson and Sebastian Faulks in winning the dubious award, was unable to attend due to touring commitments. He was also unavailable for comment.
UPDATE Dec. 3:
Excerpt from CNN article:
Morrissey was not able to attend the lavish ceremony in London, citing a busy touring schedule.
The organizer joked that this was down to the decision to serve meat canapés -- Morrissey is a die-hard vegetarian.
Music critic Charles Shaar Murray accepted the prize on Morrissey's behalf.
Murray said: "Ladies and gentleman in an ideal world, this award would be received by Morrissey. Or by somebody who publishes Morrissey. Or by somebody who likes Morrissey.
"Unfortunately no such person could be found."
Media coverage:
- Morrissey's 'bulbous salutation' wins the 2015 Bad Sex Award - The Telegraph
- Morrissey wins the award for the worst sex writing - Entertainment Weekly
- Morrissey scoops 'Bad Sex' award for debut novel - CNN
- Did Morrissey deserve to win the 2015 bad sex award? - The Guardian. Link posted by BrummieBoy (original post)
- In Defense of #BadSex - The Atlantic. Link posted by BrummieBoy (original post).
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