Literary Review




This article is about the British literary magazine. For the American literary magazine, see The Literary Review.











































Literary Review
Literary Review.png
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Editor Nancy Sladek
Frequency 11 per year
Circulation 44,750[citation needed]
Year founded 1979
Country United Kingdom
Based in London
Language English
Website literaryreview.co.uk
ISSN 0144-4360

Literary Review is a British literary magazine founded in 1979 by Anne Smith, then head of the Department of English at the University of Edinburgh. Its offices are on Lexington Street in Soho, London, and it has a circulation of 44,750.[1][citation needed] The magazine was edited for fourteen years by veteran journalist Auberon Waugh. The current editor is Nancy Sladek.


The magazine reviews a wide range of published books, including fiction, history, politics, biography and travel. Contributors to the magazine have included Diana Athill, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, Beryl Bainbridge, John Banville, Julian Barnes, Maile Chapman, Hilary Mantel, John Mortimer, Malcolm Bradbury, A. S. Byatt, Paul Johnson, David Starkey, John Gray, Robert Harris, Nick Hornby, Richard Ingrams, Joseph O'Neill, Lynn Barber, Derek Mahon, Oleg Gordievsky, John Sutherland and D. J. Taylor. Literary Review also prints new fiction. Recently published authors include William Trevor, Claire Keegan and Nicola Barker.




Contents






  • 1 Bad Sex in Fiction Award


    • 1.1 Winners




  • 2 References


  • 3 External links





Bad Sex in Fiction Award


Literary Review is known for its annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Each year since 1993, Literary Review has presented the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award to the author who produces the worst description of a sex scene in a novel. The award itself is in the form of a "semi-abstract trophy representing sex in the 1950s",[2] which depicts a naked woman draped over an open book. The award was established by Rhoda Koenig, a literary critic, and Auberon Waugh, then the magazine's editor.


The award is "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it".[2]


A compendium of all the award winners, along with extracts of each winning story, has been compiled by creative magazine, Nothing in the Rulebook, and is available online.[3]The Guardian has also been keeping track of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award since 1999.[4]


The 2016 shortlisted entries for the award were published in November 2016. The shortlist featured six authors: Janet Ellis, Tom Connolly, Ethan Canin, Robert Seethaler, Gayle Forman, and Erri De Luca. The nominated extracts for which the authors were nominated were published online.[5]



Winners




  • 1993: Melvyn Bragg, A Time to Dance

  • 1994: Philip Hook, The Stonebreakers

  • 1995: Philip Kerr, Gridiron

  • 1996: David Huggins, The Big Kiss: An Arcade Mystery

  • 1997: Nicholas Royle, The Matter of the Heart

  • 1998: Sebastian Faulks, Charlotte Gray

  • 1999: A. A. Gill, Starcrossed

  • 2000: Sean Thomas, Kissing England[6]

  • 2001: Christopher Hart, Rescue Me

  • 2002: Wendy Perriam, Tread Softly[2]

  • 2003: Aniruddha Bahal, Bunker 13

  • 2004: Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons

  • 2005: Giles Coren, Winkler[7]

  • 2006: Iain Hollingshead, Twenty Something[8]

  • 2007: Norman Mailer, The Castle in the Forest[9]

  • 2008: Rachel Johnson, Shire Hell; John Updike, Lifetime Achievement Award

  • 2009: Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones

  • 2010: Rowan Somerville, The Shape of Her [10]

  • 2011: David Guterson, Ed King[11]

  • 2012: Nancy Huston, Infrared[12]

  • 2013: Manil Suri, The City of Devi

  • 2014: Ben Okri, The Age of Magic [13]

  • 2015: Morrissey, List of the Lost [14]

  • 2016: Erri De Luca, The Day Before Happiness

  • 2017: Christopher Bollen, The Destroyers

  • 2018: James Frey, Katerina




References





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  2. ^ abc "Third time 'lucky' for bad sex winner". BBC News. 3 December 2005. Retrieved 27 November 2007.


  3. ^ professorwu. "Bad Sex In Fiction Awards: The Connoisseur's Compendium". nothingintherulebook. Retrieved 7 April 2016.


  4. ^ "Bad Sex award | Page 3 of 3 | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 April 2016.


  5. ^ professorwu (17 November 2016). "Bad Sex in Fiction: extracts from the 2016 shortlist". nothingintherulebook. Retrieved 17 November 2016.


  6. ^ "Sean Thomas wins the Bad Sex in Fiction Award". PR Newswire (Press release). Retrieved 27 November 2007.


  7. ^ "Bad sex book prize for journalist". BBC News. 1 December 2005. Retrieved 27 November 2007.


  8. ^ "First-time author wins Bad Sex in Fiction honor". Associated Press. 29 November 2006. Retrieved 27 November 2007.


  9. ^ "Late Mailer wins 'bad sex' award". BBC News. 27 November 2007. Retrieved 27 November 2007.


  10. ^ "Author Somerville wins 'bad sex' literary prize". BBC News. 30 November 2010. Retrieved 30 November 2010.


  11. ^ Britain's Most Dreaded Literary Prize..., Literary Review article


  12. ^ Maev Kennedy (4 December 2012). "Bad sex award goes to Nancy Huston's 'babies and bedazzlements'". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 December 2012.


  13. ^ Bad Sex 2014


  14. ^ "Morrissey wins Bad Sex in Fiction prize". BBC News. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.




External links



  • Official site

  • Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award

  • Digital Edition of Literary Review




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