Auberon Waugh
A tough crowd at Book Week
...author to come in and talk to them. My godson's had to make do with me, writes Nigel Farndale. Auberon Waugh, late of this parish, once managed to fall asleep while listening to a...
PETER MCKAY: Why Dave must stop being Tony
...she got cracking on them! Manyworshipped her in the Seventies. I remember Auberon Waugh (who'd kiss the screen as she presented News At Ten) inviting her to lunch at the Gay Hussar in...
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Auberon Waugh
...Alec Waugh. His maternal grandfather was diplomat and traveller Aubrey Herbert, and through him Auberon Waugh was related to Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, a leading member of the...
Melvyn Bragg: ITV has let us all down
...in 1993 - a prize given to the most excruciatingly written sex scene that year. The prize was awarded by Auberon Waugh, whom Lord Bragg describes as "a brilliant journalist and a bit of a...
On his death, Auberon Waugh wrote in Private Eye: "Nick was a gentle, modest, humorous man, with none of the usual characteristics of the highly individual genius which inspired his quiet professionalism and supreme technical ability."
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Bad sex award for 'work of genius'
...at me, spying on me, like a Gorgon's head". The award was set up by the late Literary Review editor Auberon Waugh in 1993 to "draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory...
Jonathan Littell's 'The Kindly Ones' gets Bad Sex award!
...at the Literary Review said that Littell s book is the first work in translation to win the award. Auberon Waugh started the award in 1993 to "draw attention to the crude, tasteless,...
Author Littel wins bad sex award
...Review, The Kindly Ones is the first work in translation to win the award, set up by Auberon Waugh in 1993 to "draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of...
Metaphor hell
...been shortlisted for the Bad Sex in Fiction Awards, which were set up by the magazine's editor Auberon Waugh in 1993, to try to "draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory...
Simon Hoggart's week: Dodgy vasectomies and placenta pate
...if anything, rather mild. The reality was often worse. So like almost everyone else - including Auberon Waugh and the late Alan Clark - I came to relish it. My favourite was Roger Mellie,...
Libel suits fail the lie detector test
...in Venice. He added he drank Valpolicella because ''no one but a fool would drink whiskey in Venice''. Auberon Waugh also reported that in his earshot Crossman said he and Bevan were as...
Pulitzer winners in shortlist for 'bad sex award'
...references to a green-coloured sex toy. The award was set up by the English writer and journalist Auberon Waugh to "draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of...
The art of writing a sex scene
...to snigger about this sort of thing. And yet the original intention of the prize, as set up by Auberon Waugh, remains to "draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use...
