No, the title isn't a typo! Believe it or not, Nick Cave has been nominated for the 17th annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award presented by the Literary Review magazine for his book "The Death of Bunny Munro". Other nominees include Philip Roth and Paul Theroux, whilst Tom Wolfe, Melvyn Bragg and Sebastian Faulks are all past winners! The award was set up by Auberon Waugh to "draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it"! It would seem after 17 years there's still plenty of bad sex in the literary novel!
Which Spanish leader died today in 1975?- What was the occupation of Edwin Hubble (right) who was born today in 1889?
- Fire ravaged part of which Royal residence today in 1992?
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