The winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize is Yáng Shuāng-zǐ's TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE. Translated by Lin King, it is the first book translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the prize.
The novel, which takes the form of a fictional translation of a rediscovered Japanese travel memoir, explores history, power, class, colonialism and love through the lens of two women’s culinary tour across Japan-controlled Taiwan in the 1930s.
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