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Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, winner of the International Booker Prize, reveals a Taiwan many Australians have never seen
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Taiwanese author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and her English translator Lin King have won the 2026 International Booker Prize for the novel Taiwan Travelogue, marking the first Mandarin Chinese translation to win the award and the first Taiwanese writer to receive it.
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, winner of the International Booker Prize, reveals a Taiwan many Australians have never seen
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and her English translator Lin King have received the 2026 International Booker Prize for Taiwan Travelogue. The novel is the first work translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the award in its ten-year history, and Yang is the first Taiwanese writer to take the prize.
The judges described Taiwan Travelogue as “a captivating, slyly sophisticated novel” that “pulls off an incredible double feat: it succeeds as both a romance and an incisive postcolonial novel”. For Australian read
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