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"I was recently denied a writing prize because they said I was lazy." runs one of Lydia Davis's two-sentence short stories. Well not any more. Davis has just been awarded the fifth Man Booker International Prize at an award ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Seven of the 10 authors contesting the Man Booker International Prize were in town ahead of the prize announcement on Wednesday.

The waiting is almost over. Three months on from the announcement of the list of finalists, we’re getting ready to welcome them to London to celebrate the winner.

Today, Friday 8 March, saw the judges of the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction reunited as they travelled to the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Wood (QEDJW) in Leicestershire to plant trees with the Woodland Trust.

Anyone who could have guessed even five of the 10 novelists who have just been revealed as the finalists for the fifth Man Booker International Prize deserves a mass cap-doffing from the wider reading public.

The latest five noses to be put to the grindstone have now been revealed. The announcement of the judging panel is an important moment each year because the Man Booker Prize is only as good as its judges

Robert Macfarlane has been named as chair of the judges for the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Rose Tremain, a Man Booker judge in 1988 and a shortlistee the following year, recently wrote in the Guardian about failing to win this year's Wellcome Trust Book Prize celebrating medicine in literature with her novel Merivel.

Daniella Kemp’s striking new design for Life of Pi has been chosen as the winner of a cover art contest. 

Now the dust has settled on another thrilling Man Booker Prize year we want to make sure as many people as possible have read the novels we got excited about.