Speaking of Sex: Bad Sex in Fiction award goes to 'streaking superheroes' scene

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LONDON (Reuters) - Manil Suri has won the annual Bad Sex in Fiction award for a scene in his novel "The City of Devi" describing a sexual encounter in terms of exploding supernovas and streaking superheroes, Britain's Literary Review said on Tuesday.

The prize, which has been bestowed by the magazine every year since 1993, aims to draw attention to "crude, badly written, or perfunctory use of passages of sexual description in contemporary novels, and to discourage it".

Suri, a dual American and Indian citizen, joins an illustrious list of past winners including John Updike, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe and Sebastian Faulks.

The Literary Review said the judges were won over by the climax of an extended sex scene in "The City of Devi" involving all three main characters.

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