‘Taiwan Travelogue’ wins International Booker Prize 2026
The International Booker Prize 2026 was awarded to Yáng Shuāng-zi's novel 'Taiwan Travelogue', which explores themes of food and love between two women in Taiwan. The novel, translated by Lin King, is noted for its experimental form and rich narrative layers. This marks a significant achievement as it is the first translation from Mandarin Chinese to win the prize.
- ▪'Taiwan Travelogue' won the International Booker Prize 2026 on May 19, 2026.
- ▪The novel features a complex relationship between a Japanese novelist and a Taiwanese woman.
- ▪Yáng Shuāng-zi's work is the first translation from Mandarin Chinese to receive this prestigious award.
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- ▪ Taiwan Travelogue has won the 2026 International Booker Prize. — Literary Hub
- ▪ International Booker Prize 2026: ‘Taiwan Travelogue’ is First Winner Originally Written in Mandarin — NYT > Top Stories
- ▪ 'Taiwan Travelogue' wins the 2026 International Booker Prize — NPR — World
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A story about Taiwanese food and love between two women won the International Booker Prize 2026 on Tuesday (May 19, 2026).Taiwanese writer Yáng Shuāng-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue, translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin King, is experimental in form. It contains a scholarly foreword, afterwords, fictional footnotes and real translator’s notes.The novel begins in 1938. Aoyama Chizuko, a Japanese novelist from Nagasaki, arrives in Taiwan, a Japanese colony, on a government-sponsored tour. Disinterested in the official events or the imperialist agenda, she instead decides to explore Taiwan through its food, guided by her voracious appetite.
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