First Taiwanese writer and translator win the International Booker Prize

The book follows a Japanese novelist as she goes on a culinary tour through 1930s Japan-occupied Taiwan

Author Yang Shuang-zi and translator Lin King (David Parry/Booker Prize Foundation/PA)

The first Taiwanese writer and Taiwanese-American translator have won the International Booker Prize.

Written by Yang Shuang-zi and translated by Lin King, Taiwan Travelogue is the first winning book to have been translated from Mandarin Chinese.