The Buzz: Novelist Ben Okri wins Bad Sex in Fiction prize

Booker Prize-winning Nigerian writer Ben Okri has won the uncoveted Bad Sex in Fiction Award, a prize for erotic literary encounters that push all the wrong buttons.
The writer took the tongue-in-cheek honor for conjuring an over-the-top passage in his novel “The Age of Magic.”
“The universe was in her and with each movement it unfolded to her,” Okri wrote. “Somewhere in the night a stray rocket went off.”
Okri, who won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1991 for “The Famished Road,” beat finalists including this year’s Booker winner, Richard Flanagan; Japanese literary star Haruki Murakami; and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham.
The Bad Sex award was founded by Literary Review in 1993 to name-and-shame authors of “poorly written, perfunctory or redundant” passages of sexual description.