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Tue 11 Nov 2010Irish writer wins 'bad sex' award

Author Rowan Somerville has beaten former spin doctor Alastair Campbell and poet Craig Raine to win the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award..

The award, which was established by Auberon Waugh in 1993, celebrates crude, tasteless or ridiculous descriptions of sex in modern literature.