Bonnie Nadzam won the $10,000 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize for Lamb and Scribner editor-in-chief Nan Graham received the Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Achievement in Fiction at the annual benefit for the Center for Fiction earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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David Guterson won the "dubious accolade" of this year's Bad Sex in Fiction Award from the Literary Review, the Guardian reported, noting that his fifth novel, Ed King, was cited for its "over-reliance on coy terms such as 'family jewels,' 'back door' and 'front parlor.' " Guterson is now a two-time winner, having nabbed the prize in 1994 for his debut novel, Snow Falling on Cedars.
Although he couldn't be present to accept the award, Guterson did say that his modern reimagining of the Oedipus myth was perhaps a logical winner: "Oedipus practically invented bad sex, so I'm not in the least bit surprised."
