Taiwan Travelogue

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Taiwan Travelogue (Chinese: 臺灣漫遊錄; pinyin: Táiwān Mànyóu Lù) is a novel by Taiwanese writer Yang Shuang-zi. Written in Mandarin Chinese, it was first published in 2020 in Taiwan. The book follows fictional Japanese writer Aoyama Chizuko's 1938 visit to Taiwan, then a Japanese colony, and her developing relationship with her Taiwanese translator, whom she knows as Ō Chizuru. The book is framed as Chizuko's autofiction originally published in 1954 and derived from a travelogue she serialized in 1938 during the trip, rediscovered and translated from Japanese into Chinese by Yang in the 21st century. Taiwan Travelogue, translated into English by Lin King, won the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the 2026 International Booker Prize.

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