The former Smith's frontman was not on hand to receive the award, which is given to an "outstandingly bad scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel," at a gala on Tuesday (Dec. 1) in London.

Moz was given the award for his first novel, List of the Lost. The judges at Literary Review cited a scene in the book where a couple "rolled together into one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation" and "playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation."