1 of 12 finalists to get Bad Sex writing prize (AP)

LONDON ? One of 12 shortlisted authors, including Stephen King and Haruki Murakami, is due to receive literature's little-coveted Bad Sex in Fiction Award.

The annual prize, founded in 1993 by Literary Review magazine, gently pokes fun at "the crude, tasteless, and often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in contemporary novels."

This year's shortlisted authors also include Sebastian Barry, James Frey and David Guterson.

Past winners include such literary heavyweights as Norman Mailer and Sebastian Faulks. In 2008, a lifetime achievement award was given to the late novelist, poet and critic John Updike, whose work often explored the pleasure and pain of adultery in the suburbs

The winner will be announced later Tuesday at a ceremony in London.

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