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Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award

A plaster foot was presented by award-winning actor Charles Dance as a first prize in the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2009

Jonathan Littell won the seventeenth annual award, for The Kindly Ones (Chatto & Windus). It was accepted on Littell's behalf by Alison Samuel his editor at Chatto & Windus.

The Kindly Ones, originally published in French, won the Prix Goncourt in 2006. It has sold more than a million copies in Europe. It will sell more following this award, which conversely is seen by publishers as a good award to win.

The judges praised the ambitious and impressive novel. They said: “…We hope he takes it in good humour.”

Jonathan Littell was unavailable for comment.

The winning passage is to be found on the Literary Review’s website. Other shortlisted authors this year included Paul Theroux, Nick Cave, Philip Roth, Amos Oz, Anthony Quinn, John Banville, Richard Milward, Sanjida O'Connell and Simon Van Booy.

For detail, see the website

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