Ben Okri won this year's Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award for an "ecstatic" love scene in his novel The Age of Magic, "featuring a stray rocket going off somewhere in the night," the Guardian reported. Okri's response to the "honor" was brief: "A writer writes what they write and that's all there is to it."
His editor, Maggie McKernan, commented: "Winning the award is fun but a bit undignified, just like sex, assuming you do it properly."
via Shelf Awareness
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