Morrissey is this year’s winner of the Bad Sex in Writing award.
The famously unpleasant singer-songwriter, whose autobiography was published by Penguin Classics in an act of enragingly ironic-self regard, clinched the title with a passage from his debut novel, ‘List of the Lost.’
The judges were swayed by an ecstatic scene involving Ezra, one of the athletes, and his plucky girlfriend, Eliza: ‘At this, Eliza and Ezra rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.
The Literary Review, which has organized the contest each year since 1993 to reward “poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description”, said that Morrissey’s victory shows the “rude health” of unwell prose.
Morrissey now joins a “literary pantheon” alongside Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer and John Updike, writes Rolling Stone.
Morrissey was unfortunately unable to accept his award in person as he’s on the road in support of his 2014 album, World Peace Is None of Your Business.
Literary Review has handed out the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award since 1993 in an effort to “draw attention to poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction, and to discourage them.” Pornographic and expressly erotic literature are not considered for the prize.