LONDON - Taiwanese author Yang Shuang-zi and translator Lin King won the International Booker Prize on Tuesday for Taiwan Travelogue, a playful postcolonial novel with a culinary bent.
The prestigious award, which was handed out in a ceremony at London's Tate Modern gallery, recognises works of fiction from around the world that have been translated into English.
Taiwan Travelogue is the first book translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the award, and Yang, born in 1984, is the first Taiwanese winner of the prize, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary.
