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Ella Creamer

International Booker prize goes to novel originally written in Mandarin Chinese for the first time

Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King holding their prize-winning book.
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King holding copies of Taiwan Travelogue. Photograph: David Parry

Taiwan Travelogue, a novel written by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King, has become the first book originally written in Mandarin Chinese to win the International Booker prize.

Yáng and King were announced as the winners of the £50,000 prize – to be split equally between them – during a ceremony at Tate Modern, London, on Tuesday evening.

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