Iain Hollingshead’s Twentysomething won the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction award.

Hollingshead beat established writers, including Booker Prize nominee David Mitchell, bestseller Mark Haddon, and literary maverick Thomas Pynchon to the prize, which aims to skewer “the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel.”Judges were moved by Hollingshead’s evocation of “a commotion of grunts and squeaks, flashing unconnected images and explosions of a million little particles.” His description of “bulging trousers” sealed the win, the judges said.

“Because Hollingshead is a first-time writer, we wished to discourage him from further attempts,” the judges—editors of Literary Review magazine—said in a statement.

“Heavyweights like Thomas Pynchon and Will Self are beyond help at this point.”

Hollingshead, twenty-five, who received his award from rocker Courtney Love at a London ceremony, said he was delighted to become the prize’s youngest winner.

“I hope to win it every year,” said Hollingshead, who receives a statuette and a bottle of champagne.

Now that’s ambition.

(Update: Hollingshead himself weighs in on winning the award.)