According to the BBC, the aim of the award 'is to draw attention to poorly written passages of sexual description in modern fiction, and to discourage them.

The "How Soon is Now?' singer's debut novel 'List of the Lost", won the honor at the Bad Sex in Fiction awards on Tuesday.

At a ceremony on Wednesday night in London, Moz's book was announced as this year's victor, beating off stiff competition and coming out on top (ho ho) in the hotly contested category.

The book tells the story of four relay runners from Boston who are cursed after accidentally killing a demon.

Maybe he should have stuck to writing songs - former Smiths frontman and lyricist Morrissey has won the annual award for the poorest quality writing about sex.

Reuters reports that Britain's Literary Review award the prize to Morrissey for a passage that described the woman's breasts as being "barrel-rolled" across her lover's 'howling mouth'.

The Literary Review said the judges were "swayed by an ecstatic scene involving Ezra, one of the athletes, and his plucky girlfriend, Eliza", whose "breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra's howling mouth" during the painful passage.

While the nominated authors - who included George Pelecanos, Joshua Cohen, Richard Bausch and Morrissey - may not have wanted to actually enter the game, their guilty words were read out to the audience in all their glory.

The Guardian's Michael Hann called it an "unpolished turd of a book, the stale excrement of Morrissey's imagination".

The "Bad Sex in Fiction" award has been handed out for 23 straight years and has gone to some prestigious writers including Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer.