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Romance and Reckoning: Taiwan Travelogue Wins the 2026 International Booker Prize

Yáng Shuāng-zǐ's novel has just won the 2026 International Booker Prize, sharing the prize with translator Lin King. A double feat that puts love and postcolonialism on the same page.

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Taiwan Travelogue Wins the 2026 International Booker: On Colonial Hunger and the Ties That Remain

Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue, translated by Lin King, has won the 2026 International Booker Prize. Set in 1930s colonial Taiwan, it is a novel about appetite — for food, for beauty, for a country you can occupy but perhaps not truly know.