Tom Wolfe Wins Bad Sex Award
The author of I am Charlotte Simmons has beaten an international contingent of authors for the The British prize for worst sex in fiction in 2004, reports The Age of Australia. Brits, experts in bad sex on and off the page, award the prize to "the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel". The winner receives a statuette and a bottle of champagne, but Tom Wolfe will receive neither. He is the first author in the history of the award who will not attend the event.