Nick Cave Nominated For Bad Sex-Writing Award

11/18/09 5:35pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Nick Cave's second novel, The Death Of Bunny Munro, is up for this year's Bad Sex In Fiction award.

Cave is among the 10 authors who were short-listed for the award, which has been given away for the last 16 years to a novel that uses "crude, tasteless, often perfuctory" and "redundant passages of sexual description."

The Death Of Bunny Munro's title character is a womanizer who has tons of sex on a road trip in Brighton, England. He's also obsessed with Avril Lavigne and Kylie Minogue.

Other nominees include Booker Prize-winning author John Banville for his The Infinities, Israeli author Amos Oz's Rhyming Life And Death and Philip Roth's The Humbling.

Cave will find out if he's won the award on Nov. 30 at London, England's In & Out Club.

Here are the nominees for this year's Bad Sex In Fiction award:

John Banville's The Infinities
Simon Van Booy's Love Begins In Winter
Nick Cave's The Death Of Bunny Munro
Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones
Richard Milward's Ten Storey Love Song
Sanjida O'Connell's The Naked Name Of Love
Amos Oz's Rhyming Life And Death
Anthony Quinn's The Rescue Man
Philip Roth's The Humbling
Paul Theroux's A Dead Hand