Giles Coren wins 2005 Bad Sex in Fiction Award

Giles Coren won the 2005 Bad Sex in Fiction Award for his first novel, Winkler. The winning passage:

And he came hard in her mouth and his dick jumped around and rattled on her teeth and he blacked out and she took his dick out of her mouth and lifted herself from his face and whipped the pillow away and he gasped and glugged at the air, and he came again so hard that his dick wrenched out of her hand and a shot of it hit him straight in the eye and stung like nothing he'd ever had in there, and he yelled with the pain, but the yell could have been anything, and as she grabbed at his dick, which was leaping around like a shower dropped in an empty bath, she scratched his back deeply with the nails of both hands and he shot three more times, in thick stripes on her chest. Like Zorro.

In his acceptence speech, Coren applauded the other nominated passages: "I wish I'd written them all. I hope to be back next year." In an impressive twofer, Coren was earlier named "Food And Drink Writer of the Year" for his restaurant reviews in The Times. He also "ghost-wrote the autobiography of James Dyson, inventor of the famous vacuum cleaner".

The Guardian's culture blog has an account of the Award gala, which fortunately ditches the prize's ostensible "serious writers shouldn't be vulgar" prudery in favor of good-spirited teasing and ribald celebration. "The evening began in appropriately bawdy fashion with a succession of actresses breathily reciting the shortlisted passages to roars of increasingly champagne-fuelled laughter."

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