'Taiwan Travelogue' wins the 2026 International Booker Prize

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• 'Taiwan Travelogue' wins the 2026 International Booker Prize toggle caption Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images 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 Booker.
• Yang and translator Lin King are also the first Taiwanese and Taiwanese-American winners of the prize, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.
• They will split the £50,000 award — around $67,000. Judges describe Taiwan Travelogue, which won the 2024 Book Award for translated literature, as a "captivating, slyly sophisticated" book.
• The novel presents as a rediscovered (and fictional) travel memoir from 1930s Japan-occupied Taiwan, as its two main characters embark together on a culinary tour across Taiwan.