Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2009 winner

Jonathan Littell has won the seventeenth annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award, for The Kindly Ones (Chatto & Windus). The prize (a plaster foot) was presented by award-winning actor Charles Dance. It was accepted on Littell's behalf by his editor at Chatto & Windus, Alison Samuel. The awards were announced at a lavish ceremony on 30 November 2009, at the In & Out (Naval & Military) Club in St James's Square, where the 400 guests raised a toast to the winner. The Kindly Ones, originally published in French, won the Prix Goncourt in 2006. It has sold over a million copies in Europe