FORMER Smiths frontman Morrissey has been nominated for The Literary Review's 2015 Bad Sex in Fiction award.
Morrissey's debut novel, List of the Lost, is currently favourite to win the annual award, which was set up in 1993 "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it."
List of the Lost was panned by critics when it was released in September of this year, with Jordan Bassett from NME calling the book "a confused, often quite embarrassing, slab of cringeworthy sex, clichés and bizarre, stilted dialogue."
One passage, which has come under particular scrutiny from reviewers, is suspected to have got the book nominated for the award.
One paragraph describes how "Eliza and Ezra rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation" including references to a"howling mouth" and "bulbous salutation".
Other nominees for the award include Lord Ashcroft for his unauthorised biography of David Cameron, Call Me Dave, which includes an allegation about the Prime Minister and a pig.
The winner of the award will be announced at the In and Out Club in London on December 1.
