"Dorrigo looked up. A large dog stood at the top of the dune. Above blood-jagged drool, its slobbery mouth clutched a twitching fairy penguin."
The London Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award is given to reward "poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description".
Japanese writer Haruki Murakami's bestseller Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, compares two young women's pubic hair "as wet as a rain forest".
Michael Cunningham in his "The Snow Queen" describes male orgasm thus: "He lives for seconds in that soaring agonising perfection. It's this, only this, he's lost to himself, he's no one, he's obliterated, there's no Tyler at all, there's only… He hears himself gasp in wonder. He falls into an ecstatic burning harmedness, losing, lost, unmade. And is finished."
Ben Okri in his "the Age of Magic" describes a woman enjoying intercourse, who feels "certain now that there was a heaven and that it was here, in her body". "The universe was in her and with each movement it unfolded to her."
Wilbur Smith in his novel Desert God, describes a woman's knee-length glowing hair as a "rippling curtain" through which her breasts "thrust their way through it like living creatures".
"They were perfect rounds, white as mare's milk and tipped with ruby nipples that puckered as my gaze passed over them."
Bad Sex in Fiction Award was established by Auberon Waugh in 1993. Previous winners include Sebastian Faulks, Norman Mailer and A.A. Gill.
