In a history-making triumph for its Canadian author and publisher, A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in Eastern Indonesian Society has won the 42nd annual The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year.
The result means a first-ever win of the august literary prize by a Canadian author—the University of Alberta anthropologist Gregory Forth—while McGill-Queen’s University Press now becomes the only Canadian publisher to grab the crown.
