The International Booker Prize
The International Booker Prize
Congratulations to the winner of this year's award - Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, with Taiwan Travelogue
The International Booker Prize is the world’s most influential award for translated fiction. In championing works from around the world that have originated in a wide range of languages, it fosters an engaged global community of writers and readers whose experiences and interests transcend national borders.
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King, is this year's winner of the International Booker Prize
The 2026 International Booker Prize Winner
Taiwan Travelogue is the first book translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the International Booker 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.
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ is a Taiwanese writer of fiction, essays, manga and video game scripts, and literary criticism. Taiwan Travelogue is her first book to be translated into English.
Lin King is a Taiwanese and American writer and translator based in Taipei and New York.
