Taiwan Travelogue, a love letter to food and adventure, wins International Booker Prize - BBC
ShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleTiffany WertheimerAdrian Dennis / AFP via Getty ImagesA tale about forbidden love and Taiwanese food has won the International Booker Prize, becoming the first novel translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the prestigious award. Taiwan Travelogue, written by Taiwanese author Yang Shuang-zi and Taiwanese-American translator Lin King, follows two women on their culinary tour across Taiwan in the 1930s, when the island was under Japanese rule.