Taiwan Travelogue, A Historical Romance, Wins International Booker Prize
Taipei: Taiwanese author Yang Shuang-zi and translator Lin King won the International Booker Prize on Tuesday for “Taiwan Travelogue,” a historical romance set in Japan-occupied Taiwan in the 1930s. It is the first novel written in Mandarin Chinese to win the prestigious prize for fiction translated into English. British novelist Natasha Brown, who chaired the…