Rushdie and Elton Are Up for Bad Sex

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IT'S NOT a fatwa, it's an honour, and some consolation for Salman Rushdie who missed out on being shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize. His novel, Shalimar the Clown, has just been shortlisted for the Literary Review Bad Sex Award for the worst passage of literary sex published this year.

After much teasing foreplay, the Literary Review has finally unveiled its list of 11 nominees. They include Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez for Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Paul Theroux for Blinding Light, John Updike for Villages, Giles Coren for Wrinkler and Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell for Fan Tan.

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Rushdie and Elton Are Up for Bad Sex

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