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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/irishman-bags-bad-sex-fiction-prize.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Alastair Campbell has been pipped to the Bad Sex in Literature Award by Rowan Somerville" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-irishman-bags-bad-sex-fiction-prize.jpg" alt="Alastair Campbell has been pipped to the Bad Sex in Literature Award by Rowan Somerville"/></a></p>
<p>Author Rowan Somerville has beaten Alastair Campbell to win the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award.</p>
<p>The Irish writer said he was honoured to be handed the award for his second novel, The Shape of Her, at the aptly named In &#038; Out (Naval &#038; Military) Club at St James&#8217;s Square, London.</p>
<p>Judges of the award said they were particularly impressed with the line: &#8220;Like a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect with a too blunt pin he screwed himself into her.&#8221;</p>
<p>Somerville, who was handed his prize by film director Michael Winner, said: &#8220;What an honour to share a list with Jonathan Franzen and Christos Tsiolkas.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is nothing more English than bad sex, so on behalf of the entire nation I would like to thank you.&#8221;</p>
<p>A spokesman for the awards, founded in 1993, said former spin doctor Campbell ruined his chances of being awarded the prize for his novel Maya because of his &#8220;public enthusiasm&#8221; for winning such a dubious honour.</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;The judge&#8217;s felt that the prize&#8217;s original purpose, which was to discourage further egregious writing about sex, would not have been effective in his case.&#8221;</p>
<p>Other shortlisted books included The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas, Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon, Mr Peanut by Adam Ross, Heartbreak by Craig Raine and A Life Apart by Neel Mukherjee.</p>
<p>Auberon Waugh established the prize to draw attention to the &#8220;crude, tasteless, and often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in contemporary novels, and to discourage it&#8221;.</p>
<p>Last year the award was won by Jonathan Littell for The Kindly Ones.</p>
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