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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/campbell-up-for-bad-sex-book-award.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Alastair Campbell is in the running for the Bad Sex in Literature Award" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-campbell-up-for-bad-sex-book-award.jpg" alt="Alastair Campbell is in the running for the Bad Sex in Literature Award"/></a></p>
<p>Former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell is in the running for the unenviable Bad Sex in Literature Award.</p>
<p>The former adviser to Tony Blair was nominated for the tongue-in-cheek prize for his second novel Maya.</p>
<p>The award, run by Literary Review, is handed out for the most embarrassing passage of sexual description in a novel.</p>
<p>Maya, which was published in February, is about an A-list movie star and her relationship with a life-long friend.</p>
<p>Other nominated books included Freedom by US novelist Jonathan Franzen, and the Man Booker long-listed novel The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas.</p>
<p>Compilers of the list said veteran authors Martin Amis and Ian McEwan had missed out despite being widely tipped to be nominated for the prize.</p>
<p>The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon, A Life Apart by Neel Mukherjee, Heartbreak by Craig Raine, The Shape of Her by Rowan Somerville and Mr Peanut by Adam Ross were also nominated for the 18th annual award.</p>
<p>Last year, the prize went to Jonathan Littell for The Kindly Ones, which was originally published in French.</p>
<p>Organisers said the award was given to &#8220;draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it.&#8221;</p>
<p>This year&#8217;s winner will be announced on Monday, November 29 at the Naval and Military Club in St James&#8217;s Square, London.</p>
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