Today, at a ceremony at London’s Tate Modern, Natasha Brown, Chair of the 2026 International Booker Prize judging panel, announced this year’s winner: Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s Taiwan Travelogue, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King. The International Booker Prize celebrates “the best work of long-form fiction or collection of short stories translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland” in the previous calendar year.
“Taiwan Travelogue pulls off an incredible double feat: it succeeds as both a romance and an incisive postcolonial novel,” Brown said. “As judges, we’ve enjoyed rich discussions about the many layers of this book. It’s a captivating, slyly sophisticated novel.”
The £50,000 prize will be split equally between author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King.