London: "Taiwan Travelogue," a novel by Taiwanese writer Yang Shuang-zi and translated into English by Lin King, has won the 2026 International Booker Prize, becoming the first Taiwanese work to win the award. According to Focus Taiwan, the win, announced Tuesday in London, came after King's translation of the novel received the 2024 U.S. National Book Award for Translated Literature, also a first for Taiwanese literature. The novel made history earlier this year when it became the first work by a Taiwanese author to reach the shortlist of the International Booker Prize. The novel follows the friendship between a Taiwanese woman and a Japanese woman through a culinary and railway journey across Taiwan, exploring questions of identity, empire, and cultural exchange. The annual International Booker Prize recognizes works of fiction translated into English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. Yang and King will split the £50,000 (US$66,200) prize. According to the Booker Prize Foundation, this yea r's shortlist featured writers and translators from eight countries and works originally written in five languages.