Yang Shuang-zi Wins International Booker Prize for 'Taiwan Travelogue'
The International Booker Prize 2024 has been awarded to Taiwanese author Yang Shuang-zi for her novel 'Taiwan Travelogue', a love story set in occupied Taiwan. The prize, worth £50,000, is shared with the book's translator from Chinese, Lin King. The two German nominees, Martina Hefter and her translator, did not win. The novel explores themes of identity and colonialism under Japanese occupation.
Key facts
- Yang Shuang-zi won the International Booker Prize 2024
- The winning novel is 'Taiwan Travelogue'
- The story is a love story set in occupied Taiwan
- The prize is shared with translator Lin King
- Two German nominees were shortlisted but did not win
- The prize is worth £50,000
- The novel deals with themes of identity and colonialism
- The setting is Taiwan under Japanese occupation
Entities
Artists
- Yang Shuang-zi
- Lin King
- Martina Hefter
- Natasha Brown
- Marie NDiaye
- Shida Bazyar
- Rene Karabash
- Daniel Kehlmann
- Ana Paula Maia
- Banu Mushtaq
- Deepa Bhasthi
- Han Kang
- Annie Ernaux
- Olga Tokarczuk
- Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
- Aoyama Chizuko
- O Chizuru
Institutions
- International Booker Prize
- Tate Modern
- Goncourt Prize
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- National Book Award
- Booker Prize
- Children's Booker Prize
- Golden Tripod Award
- National Book Award for Translated Literature
Locations
- Taiwan
- London
- United Kingdom
- New York
- United States
- France
- Germany
- Bulgaria
- Brazil
- India
- Japan
- Ireland