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‘I refuse to be a second-class citizen in my own land’: Taiwanese International Booker winner Yáng Shuāng-zǐ ⊕⊕
The author of historical novel Taiwan Travelogue, and its translator Lin King, discuss the threat from Beijing, LGBTQ+ rights and the island’s culinary delicacies
As Yáng Shuāng-zǐ accepted the 2026 I…
21 days ago
Taiwan Travelogue, a love letter to food and adventure, wins International Booker Prize ⊕⊕⊕
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The story of romance, food and colonialism is the first book translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the prestigious award.
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 writ…
23 days ago
What should win this year’s International Booker? ⊕⊕
Political oppression in Tehran, a witch’s tale from France, a film-maker in Nazi Germany … we weigh up the contenders for the International Booker prize 2026
This year’s International Booker prize sh…
70 days ago
‘Hope, insight and burning humanity’: 2026 International Booker prize shortlist announced ⊕⊕
The six finalists include Marie NDiaye and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ alongside Daniel Kehlmann’s second nomination for the £50,000 prize
Daniel Kehlmann, Marie NDiaye and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ are among the six authors…
86 days ago
Shahrnush Parsipur: ‘The women of Iran will cause the fall of the Islamic Republic’ ⊖
As her banned 1989 novella, Women Without Men, is published for the first time in the UK, the Iranian author looks back on a life of resistance and repression
As I write this, Iranians around the worl…
3 months ago
Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist ⊕⊕
Thirteen books make this year’s longlist for translated fiction, which awards a first prize of £50,000
Olga Ravn, Daniel Kehlmann, Ia Genberg, Mathias Énard and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara are among those…
5 months ago
On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle review – how to make a timeloop endlessly interesting ⊕⊕
The hypnotic third novel in the hit Danish series grapples with the philosophical realities of being stuck on repeat in 18 November
The time loop story, in which characters repeatedly relive the same …
6 months ago
Things That Disappear by Jenny Erpenbeck review – a kaleidoscopic study of transience ⊕
A collection of columns by the German Booker winner reveals a keen eye for details that mark the passing of time
Jenny Erpenbeck wrote the pieces collected in this compact yet kaleidoscopic book for a…