The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, also known as the Diagram Prize, is a humorous literary award that is given annually to the book with the oddest title. The prize is named after the Diagram Group, an information and graphics company based in London, and The Bookseller, a British literary magazine. Originally organised to provide entertainment during the 1978 Frankfurt Book Fair, the prize has since been awarded every yea...
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The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, also known as the Diagram Prize, is a humorous literary award that is given annually to the book with the oddest title. The prize is named after the Diagram Group, an information and graphics company based in London, and The Bookseller, a British literary magazine. Originally organised to provide entertainment during the 1978 Frankfurt Book Fair, the prize has since been awarded every year by The Bookseller and is now organised by the magazine's diarist Horace Bent. The winner was at first decided by a panel of judges, but since 2000 the winner has been decided by a public vote on The Bookseller's website.
Since the creation of the awards, there has been controversy. There have been two occasions when no award was given because no titles were judged to be odd enough, Bent has complained about some of the winners chosen by the public, and the latest winner, The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage...
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