Taiwan Travelogue author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, left, and translator Lin King are the first Taiwanese and Taiwanese-American winners of the International Booker Prize. They are pictured above in London on Monday. Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images
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Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s Taiwan Travelogue has won the 2026 International Booker Prize, awarded each year to the best work of fiction translated into English. It’s the first work translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the International
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