Ben Okri's 'The Age of Magic' wins award for 'Bad Sex in Fiction'

Nigerian author Ben Okri has won the 'Bad Sex in Fiction award' 2014 for his book The Age of Magic.

The novel included lines which said "he lavished on her body indirect touches and bitter-sweet sensations flooded her brain", the BBC reported.

The 55-year-old, who beat fellow authors including the Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan, was awarded the prize in its 22nd year that highlights "crude, badly written or perfunctory use of sexual description" in modern books.

Okri's book follows a team of eight documentary makers travelling from Paris to Basel, who end up in a Swiss hotel by a lake in the shadow of a looming mountain and the judges were impressed by an erotic scene involving Lao, the documentary's presenter, and his girlfriend, Mistletoe.

Last year the prize was won by Manil Suri for The City of Devi.