From the Guardian Unlimited:
"Now in its 15th year, the prize, which only targets literary fiction, aims "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it." The winner, who will be announced on today at the In & Out Club in London, is awarded a semi-abstract statue representing sex in the 1950s and a bottle of champagne, if he or she turns up."
The Guardian Unlimited has excerpts from those shortlisted to win. Perhaps you should read them aloud with your special someone before turning in early tonight. Wink wink. Nudge nudge.
Update: The recently deceased Norman Mailer has won the coveted award.
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