Author Rowan Somerville won literature's little-coveted Bad Sex in Fiction Prize in London for the use of unsettling insect imagery in his novel "The Shape of Her".
Judges of the literary award said they were impressed by a passage comparing lovemaking to "a lepidopterist mounting a toughskinned insect". The animal imagery continues elsewhere in the novel, a tale of desire set in Greece. One character's fingers are described as "tender enough to hold a tiny bird".
Somerville, who was born in UK and lives in Ireland, said that "there is nothing more English than bad sex". Previous winners include such literary heavyweights as Sebastian Faulks, Norman Mailer and John Updike.
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