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For one evening every November, literary Britain holds its breath while a jury decides which novel will define the year. No other award remakes a book's fortunes so completely in a single night, and its winners are the closest thing the English novel has to a canon of the living.
Every great work of world literature reaches the English reader through a second pair of hands, and for most of history those hands went unnamed. The International Booker is the prize that finally put them on the cover.