Award-winning Calgary-born novelist Nancy Huston won Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction award Tuesday for her novel Infrared, whose tale of a photographer who takes pictures of her lovers during sex proved too revealing for the judges.
Judges of the tongue-in-cheek prize, run by the Literary Review magazine, said they were struck by a description of "flesh, that archaic kingdom that brings forth tears and terrors, nightmares, babies and bedazzlements," and by a long passage that builds to a climax of "undulating space."
Huston, who lives in Paris, was not on hand to collect her prize. In a statement read by her publicist, the 59-year-old author said she hoped her victory would "incite thousands of British women to take close-up photos of their lovers' bodies in all states of array and disarray."
