Announcing the 2026 International Booker Prize Winner

Honoring exceptional storytelling from around the world, the International Booker Prize celebrates outstanding fiction in translation. Chosen from a shortlist of gripping, mesmerizing and deeply moving stories, the 2026 International Booker Prize goes to Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi, translated by Lin King.

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This is a story within a story about two queer women and the colonial history of Taiwan. Riddled with love, longing and loss, this is an exquisite tale about history and humanity.

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Four decades of heartbreak and hope. This moving multi-generational story follows a family whose lives are shaped by exile, identity and the search for belonging.

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Haunting and deeply moving, this stream-of-consciousness novel explores gender identity and enduring traditions through the story of a woman who escapes an arranged marriage at a profound cost.

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A story about art and morality, big promises and even bigger threats, The Director chronicles the life and work of an infamous man’s complicated life in sharp and exacting prose.

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Sharp, suspenseful and shocking, this gripping survival story follows prisoners in an isolated penal colony who are violently hunted by a deranged warden.

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Trapped in a dangerous marriage, a witch must protect her daughters as they develop their magic in this mesmerizing tale of motherhood, shame and liberation.

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