Taiwan's Yáng Shuāng-zǐ wins the International Booker Prize for a multilayered historical romance - AP News

Taiwan's Yáng Shuāng-zǐ wins the International Booker Prize for a multilayered historical romance  AP News

Taiwan Travelogue, a love letter to food and adventure, wins International Booker Prize

The story of romance, food and colonialism is the first book translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the prestigious award.

Yáng Shuāng-zi and Lin King win the International Booker Prize

A historical tale of travel, power and romance is the first Taiwanese novel to win the influential award for fiction in translation

International Booker prize goes to novel originally written in Mandarin Chinese for the first time

Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King, pulled off an ‘incredible double feat’ in succeeding as ‘both a romance and an incisive postcolonial novel’ Taiwan Travelogue, a novel written by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King, has become the first book originally written in Mandarin Chinese to win the International Booker prize. Yáng and King were announced as the winners of the £50,000 prize – to be split equally between them – during a ceremony at Tate Modern, London,...

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Taiwan Travelogue, A Historical Romance, Wins International Booker Prize

Yang, who writes fiction, essays, manga and video game scripts, has said she "wanted to untangle the complex circumstances" of Taiwan's time as a Japanese colony.

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Taiwan writer wins International Booker for ‘slyly sophisticated’ novel

Taiwanese author Yang Shuang-zi and translator Lin King won the International Booker Prize on Tuesday for “Taiwan Travelogue”, a playful postcolonial novel with a culinary bent. The prestigious award, which was handed out in a ceremony at London’s Tate Modern gallery, recognises works of fiction from around the world that have been translated into English. […]

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Forbidden love and flavours of Taiwan triumph at the International Booker Prize - The Star | Malaysia

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