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Huston wins 2012 Bad S-x in Fiction Award for ‘Infrared’

Canadian author Nancy Huston has won this year’s UK Literary Review Bad S-x in Fiction Award for her book Infrared (Text), reports the Independent. Huston’s novel was selected for the tongue-in-cheek prize from a shortlist of eight titles. The award was established in 1993 to draw attention to the ‘crude, badly written or perfunctory use of passage of s-xual description in contemporary novels, and to discourage it’. This year’s shortlist attracted attention because of the absence of two authors who were heavily tipped to take out the prize: J K Rowling and E L James.

 

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