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International Booker Prize

The International Booker Prize 2026

Great fiction, in translation

Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi, translated from Mandarin by Lin King, won the 2026 International Booker Prize on May 19. It beat a shortlist led by women writers and themes of exile and identity, from revolutionary Tehran to the Albanian Alps.

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Yang Shuang-zi, translated by Lin King