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Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 23/12/2008
... of human endeavour over several centuries - inlcuding of course Wystan Hugh Auden and briefly, Auberon Waugh.This elect crew develop a distinctive and apparently effortless superiority and an hauteur , of which Adrian Mitchell who died this week was a prime example.Darling of the London literary glitterati, whose Hampstead drawing rooms echoed to his curious chanting and foot stamping...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Desmond Browne, QC, is already a familiar face — to the media at least. One of Britain’s top libel silks, he is well known in press circles from high-profile court cases over decades (Neil Hamilton, Elton John, Auberon Waugh, Boris Berezovsky and Victoria Beckham all secured his services, as have several newspapers). Soon the chairman of the Bar Council will be known a whole lot better....
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Emerging Writer (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
The annual bad sex award is up for grabs. That's bad sex in fiction actually started originally by Auberon Waugh to discourage "unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing or redundant passages of a sexual nature in otherwise sound literary novels". The Gate of Air by James Buchan Sashenka by Simon Montefiore To Love, Honour and Betray by Kathy Lette Triptych of a Young Wolf by Ann Allestree...
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Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Nothing guarantees a good turnout like the prospect of free champagne and some soft porn, even high-minded soft porn. When the late Auberon Waugh came up with the idea of presenting a Bad Sex in Fiction award to recognize "the most embarrassing passages of sexual description in a literary novel", he would have been amazed to think that 16 years later his little jape (designed to...
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NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
The fourteenth annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Awards took place last week. The awards were set up by Auberon Waugh with the aim of gently dissuading authors and publishers from including unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing or redundant passages of a sexual nature in otherwise sound literary novels. Previous winners include Tom Wolfe, AA Gill, Sebastian Faulks, and Melvyn...
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RssDaily (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
The lucky winner of the Literary Review âs annual Bad Sex in Fiction award will be announced this week. The award was established in 1993 by the late Auberon Waugh (son of Evelyn) in the quixotic hope that it would dissuade writers from introducing âunconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing or redundant passages of a sexual nature in otherwise sound literary novels.â Among this yearâs...
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Quillblog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Paulo Coelho, John Updike, and Isabel Fonseca are on the shortlist for the one award no writer really wants to receive: the Literary Review’s Bad Sex Award. The award – a plaster foot – was created by Auberon Waugh “with the aim of gently dissuading authors and publishers from including unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing or [...]
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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
The lucky winner of the Literary Review ’s annual Bad Sex in Fiction award will be announced this week. The award was established in 1993 by the late Auberon Waugh (son of Evelyn) in the quixotic hope that it would dissuade writers from introducing “unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing or redundant passages of a sexual nature in otherwise sound literary novels.” Among this year’s...
