Ben Okri wins bad sex in fiction award for scene featuring rocket going off

Booker winner beats distinguished peers to clinch Literary Review award on strength of passage from The Age of Magic



• Bad sex in fiction award: the shortlist

An “ecstatic” love scene featuring a stray rocket going off somewhere in the night has earned Ben Okri, winner of several prestigious literary awards, a more ambiguous trophy – the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award.

The Age of Magic, Okri’s 10th novel, follows a team of filmmakers, shooting a documentary about the idea of Arcadia, who wind up in a hotel by a lake in the shadow of a looming mountain. The 1991 Booker winner scooped the prize for a love scene involving Lao, the film’s presenter, and Mistletoe, his girlfriend.

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