http://www.listal.com/list/literary-reviews-bad-sex-fiction <i>"To draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it"</i> The books are chronologically displayed as the winners from year 1993 to 2010. In 2008, along with the award being given to Rachel Johnson, a Lifetime Achievement Award was given to <a href="http://www.listal.com/author/john-updike">John Updike</a>. (From the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8387234.stm">BBC</a>) Littell's "winning" passage begins: <i>"This sex was watching at me, spying on me, like a Gorgon's head".</i> An excerpt from the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11867942">BBC</a> on this year's winner (Somerville): <i>"She released his hair from her fingers and twisted onto her belly like a fish flipping itself."</i> <b>Sources</b> <a href="http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/badsex.html">The Literary Review Bad Sex Award</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_Review">Literary Review Wiki page</a> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8385795.stm">BBC article</a> (with examples of writing) en-us GMT GMT Listal.com <a href='http://www.listal.com/book/a-time-to-dance-lord-melvyn-bragg' title="A Time to Dance"><img src='http://i2.listal.com/image/products/50/0340551194/books/0340551194.jpg' style="float:left;" /></a> <a 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