The 2026 International Booker Prize was awarded to "Travel Notes on Taiwan" by Taiwanese writer Yang Shuang-tzu.
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This is the first time the prize has been awarded to a book written in Chinese. "Travel Notes on Taiwan" was translated into English by Taiwanese translator Lin King. The novel was first published in 2020 in Taiwan.
The novel is presented as a fictional translation of found travel notes about Taiwan from the late 1930s, when the island was under Japanese rule. At the heart of the plot are the relationships between two women during their gastronomic journey across the island.
The International Booker Prize was established in 2004 as an addition to the Booker Prize to honor the best authors of fiction translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.
Initially, it was awarded biennially. The first laureate was Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. Among the laureates were also future Nobel laureates Alice Munro, László Krasznahorkai, Han Kang, Olga Tokarczuk.
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