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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.
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Nicolas Parola
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