In a week in which attention has been focused on the big names and big money of the Man Booker International prize, the 29th winner of arguably the most original literary prize has also been quietly announced.
The Diagram Oddest title of the year award – for which content is irrelevant and the prize is a bottle of wine – has had a surprise winner this year: The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification by Julian Montague.
. . .With 1,866 votes of the 5,500 polled via the Bookseller website, Shopping Carts beat the bookies’ favourite How Green Were the Nazis? Second prize went to Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan, while Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence took third.
