After terrible reviews for his first novel, Morrissey has been given another sign he should perhaps stick to song-writing after winning a bad sex in fiction award.
The former Smiths frontman was awarded the prize writers don't want at a ceremony, which he did not attend, in London.
Morrissey received mixed reviews for his fictional debut, List Of The Lost, when it was published by Penguin in September.
Michael Hann of The Guardian called it an "unpolished turd of a book, the stale excrement of Morrissey's imagination".
Judges cited a scene between American track relay runner Ezra and his girlfriend Eliza in which the couple "rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation", later describing his "bulbous salutation".
Morrissey, lauded for his lyrics in a career spanning three decades, is the 23rd winner of the not-so-prestigious prize awarded by the Literary Review magazine to spotlight "poorly written, perfunctory or redundant" passages of sexual description.
Past recipients of the prize include Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe.
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