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Taiwan’s first International Booker Prize-winning novel explores Japanese-ruled Taiwan in 1938 through a story of food, language and identity.
South China Morning PostTaiwan Travelogue won the International Booker Prize, becoming the island’s first novel to receive the award. Yang Shuang-zi is the author. The novel is set in Japanese-ruled Taiwan in 1938 and is framed as a fictional translation.
The story follows a Japanese novelist and her Taiwanese interpreter on a culinary journey across the island. Through food, language, personal relationships and the unequal status between coloniser and colonised, it explores questions of power, memory and identity. Lawrence Chung reported the article from Taipei.
It was published at 6:00 pm on 20 Jun 2026.
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