Morrisey: Sad Singer Saturnine Over Sex Scene Slagging

Morrissey has finally responded to his triumph in the Bad Sex award earlier this month – and the singer is not impressed.

The Literary Review announced on 1 December that the former Smiths singer’s debut novel, List of the Lost, had won the least coveted honour in fiction, the Bad Sex award, for a passage which includes references to a “giggling snowball of full-figured copulation” and a “dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation”, as well as the “the pained frenzy” of a “bulbous salutation”.

The annual prize is intended to highlight, and hence discourage, “poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction”.

Morrissey did not attend the ceremony due to touring commitments, and was unavailable for comment on the night. He told the Uruguayan paper El Observador this week that he felt it was “best to maintain an indifferent distance” from the prize, “because there are too many good things in life to let these repulsive horrors pull you down”.

“I have many enemies,” he added, “and their biggest motivation, as you know, is to try to use all your achievements against you.”

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