Date: Sunday, 17th of May

Location: Round Table Books CIC, 10-11 Granville Arcade, Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8PR (next to Honest Burger)

Time: 18:30 - 21:00

The price of the ticket is redeemable against a copy of Taiwan Travelogue on the night.

Join the International Booker-shortlisted author, Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, and translator Lin King in discussing their book, Taiwan Travelogue. They will be in conversation with our very own Meera Ghanshamdas. The event will be just two days before the International Booker announcement.

A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history and power

Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, this novel was a sensation on its first publication in Mandarin Chinese in 2020 and won Taiwan’s highest literary honour, the Golden Tripod Award. Taiwan Travelogue unearths lost colonial histories and deftly reveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships. It is shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026.

Yáng Shuāng-zǐ is a Taiwanese writer of fiction, essays, manga and video game scripts, and literary criticism. Her novel Taiwan Travelogue, her first book to be translated into English, won the National Book Award for Literature in Translation in 2024 and Asia Society’s inaugural Baifang Schell Book Prize

Lin King is a writer and translator based in Taipei and New York. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Boston Review, and Joyland, among others, and has received the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

Books and refreshments from Round Table’s Bar will be available for purchase on the night.