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{{about|the British literary magazine|the American literary magazine|The Literary Review}}
{{Infobox Magazine
| title = Literary Review
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| image_caption = ''Literary Review'' Dec 2010/Jan 2011 (issue 383)
| circulation = 44,750
| frequency = 11 per year
| language = English
| editor = Nancy Sladek
| firstdate = 1979
| country = United Kingdom
| website = [http://literaryreview.co.uk/ literaryreview.co.uk]
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'''''Literary Review''''' is a British literary magazine founded in 1979 by Anne Smith, then head of the Department of English at [[Edinburgh University]]. Its offices are currently on Lexington Street in [[Soho]], [[London]], and it has a circulation of 44,750.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/docs/mediakit.pdf |format=PDF| title = Literary Review media kit (PDF) | accessdate=2008-09-29}}</ref> Britain's principal literary monthly, the magazine was edited for fourteen years by veteran journalist [[Auberon Waugh]]. Nancy Sladek, who has been at the magazine for ten years, is the current editor.
The magazine reviews a wide range of published books, including fiction, history, politics, biography and travel. Contributors to the magazine have included [[Diana Athill]], [[Kingsley Amis]], [[Martin Amis]], [[Beryl Bainbridge]], [[Julian Barnes]], [[Hilary Mantel]], [[John Mortimer]], [[Malcolm Bradbury]], [[AS Byatt]], [[Paul Johnson]], [[David Starkey]], [[John Gray]], [[Robert Harris]], [[Nick Hornby]], [[Richard Ingrams]], [[Joseph O'Neill]], [[Lynn Barber]], [[Derek Mahon]], [[Oleg Gordievsky]], [[John Sutherland]] and [[DJ Taylor]]. ''Literary Review'' also prints new fiction. Recently published authors include [[William Trevor]], [[Claire Keegan]] and [[Nicola Barker]].
==Bad Sex in Fiction Award==
Literary Review is well known for its annual '''Bad Sex in Fiction Award'''. Each year since 1993, ''Literary Review'' presents the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award to the [[author]] who produces the worst description of a [[sex scene]] in a [[novel]]. The award itself is in the form of a "semi-abstract trophy representing sex in the 1950s",<ref name="2002award">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2540197.stm|title=Third time 'lucky' for bad sex winner|accessdate=2007-11-27|publisher=BBC News|date=2005-12-03}}</ref> which depicts a naked woman draped over an open book. The award was originally established by Rhoda Koenig, a literary critic, and [[Auberon Waugh]], then the magazine's editor.
The given rationale is "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it".<ref name="2002award"/>
===Winners===
Winners of the Bad Sex in Fiction award include<ref>http://book.consumerhelpweb.com/awards/badsex/winners.htm</ref>:
*1993: [[Melvyn Bragg]], ''A Time to Dance''
*1994: Philip Hook, ''The Stonebreakers''
*1995: [[Philip Kerr]], ''[[Gridiron (novel)|Gridiron]]''
*1996: David Huggins, ''The Big Kiss: An Arcade Mystery''
*1997: [[Nicholas Royle]], ''The Matter of the Heart''
*1998: [[Sebastian Faulks]], ''[[Charlotte Gray (novel)|Charlotte Gray]]''
*1999: [[A. A. Gill]], ''Starcrossed''
*2000: [[Sean Thomas]], ''Kissing England''<ref>{{cite press release|title=Sean Thomas wins the Bad Sex in Fiction Award|publisher=PR Newswire|accessdate=2007-11-27|url=http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=60086}}</ref>
*2001: [[Christopher Hart (novelist)|Christopher Hart]], ''Rescue Me''
*2002: [[Wendy Perriam]], ''Tread Softly''<ref name="2002award"/>
*2003: [[Aniruddha Bahal]], ''[[Bunker 13]]''
*2004: [[Tom Wolfe]], ''[[I Am Charlotte Simmons]]''
*2005: [[Giles Coren]], ''Winkler''<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4488848.stm|title=Bad sex book prize for journalist|accessdate=2007-11-27|publisher=BBC News|date=2005-12-01}}</ref> ([http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/badsexinfiction.htm article])
*2006: [[Iain Hollingshead]], ''Twenty Something''<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15952952/|title=First-time author wins Bad Sex in Fiction honor|accessdate=2007-11-27|publisher=Associated Press|date=2006-11-29}}</ref> ([http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/badsexpassages.html shortlisted passages])
*2007: [[Norman Mailer]], ''[[The Castle in the Forest]]''<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7115451.stm |title=Late Mailer wins 'bad sex' award |accessdate=2007-11-27 |publisher=BBC News |date=2007-11-27 |format= |work=}}</ref>
*2008: [[Rachel Johnson]], ''Shire Hell''; [[John Updike]], Lifetime Achievement Award
*2009: [[Jonathan Littell]], ''[[The Kindly Ones (Littell novel)|The Kindly Ones]]''
*2010: Rowan Somerville, ''The Shape of Her'' <ref>{{cite news|title=Author Somerville wins 'bad sex' literary prize|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11867942|accessdate=30 November 2010|newspaper=BBC News|date=30 November 2010}}</ref> ([http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/badsex.html article])
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://literaryreview.co.uk/ Official site]
*[http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/badsex.html Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award]
*[http://www.bookhelpweb.com/awards/badsex/winners.htm Bad Sex in Fiction Award winners 1994-2004], ''BookHelpWeb''
*[http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/browse/327/342 Digital Edition of Literary Review]
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