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Nick Cave's Novel Nominated for Annual Bad Sex Award

8:58 a.m. · November 19, 2009 · by Nick Neyland

Nick Cave’s second novel, The Death of Bunny Monroe, was released in an innovative format, and was somehow completed despite his busy schedule with the Bad Seeds, Grinderman, and his burgeoning soundtrack and screenwriting career. Now, the novel has caught the attention of the annual Bad Sex Award committee, which is presented by the Literary Review magazine.

The award is presented for "redundant passages of sexual description,” and Cave is joined in the list by some impressive company—Philip Roth and Paul Theroux have both been nominated. “Frankly, we would have been offended if he wasn't shortlisted,” said a spokeswoman for Cave.

The Bad Sex Award was conceived by Auberon Waugh, who wanted to “draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it.” Cave fans will have to wait until Nov. 30 to find out exactly how "bad" his sex was considered to be by the judges.

[BBC]