Published on
20/05/2026 - 8:29 GMT+2
Taiwanese author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King have won the International Booker Prize for “Taiwan Travelogue,” a historical romance set in Japan-occupied Taiwan in the 1930s.
It is the first novel written in Mandarin Chinese to win the prestigious award for fiction translated into English.
The book purports to be a travel memoir by a Japanese novelist on a culinary tour of Taiwan and charts the fictional writer’s complex relationship with her local interpreter.
