Mathematics professor Manil Suri was mentioned on Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” (Dec. 7) for winning the Bad Sex in Fiction award for his most recent novel, The City of Devi. Some of the world’s most acclaimed writers have won the award, including John Updike, Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe.
Media across the globe have covered news of the prize, awarded last Tuesday. Suri spoke about the honor with Washington Post book editor Ron Charles (read the full story here). Suri was also mentioned in The Baltimore Sun.
In accepting the award, Suri’s publisher pointed out that the Times Literary Supplement praised the novel’s sex scenes as “unfettered, quirky, beautiful, tragic and wildly experimental.” In addition, the Wall Street Journal writes that Suri “captures the insecurity, the curiosity and even the comedy of those vulnerable moments without stooping to prurience.”
Suri is also author of The Death of Vishnu and The Age of Shiva.
