The 2026 International Booker Prize has been won by Taiwanese writer Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King for "Taiwan Travelogue", a historical romance judges praised for succeeding as "both a romance and an incisive postcolonial novel."
Taiwan Travelogue: Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King win the International Booker Prize
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