The Man Booker does so much horse trading, has so many arguments, and people talk complete nonsense about it and occasionally choose ridiculously bad books for no good reason, but all of that is done behind closed doors so you never see it.

FORBES: Not The Booker's Sam Jordison Considers Self-Publishing Award

This is good news for writers from the anglophone countries: 103, 000 of all the 132, 000 books translated in the last ten years into the seven major tongues were from English.

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