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Yang Shuang-zi
Shuang-zi, Yang Jo-tzu, Yang Shuang-tzu, Iunn Siang-tsu, Iunn Siang-chu
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Who is this?
Yang Shuang-zi (Chinese: 楊双子; pinyin: Yáng Shuāngzǐ; born 1984) is a Taiwanese writer. Her novel Taiwan Travelogue was translated from Mandarin Chinese into English by Lin King. It won the US National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2024, the Baifang Schell Book Prize for Translated Literature from Chinese Language, and the 2026 International Booker Prize.
Career
- 1984Born
- 2024Won National Book Award for Translated Literature
Trivia
- •Citizenship: Taiwan
- •Known as: novelist
What happened recently
Taiwan’s first ‘Buker Award’ writer Yang Shuangtsu “I wanted to know the pressure towards Taiwan”
Yang Shuangz “I wanted to write a dream of a woman that is not recorded in history”
Yang Shuangzi “I wanted to write about women’s dreams that were not recorded in history”
Yang Shuangz “I wanted to write a dream of a woman that was not recorded in history” About Us
Yang Shuangzi, Taiwan's first Booker Prize winner: “Literature can change society”
Taiwan's first Bucur Award Yang Shuangtsu "The Literature can change the society"
"Burker" Yang Shuangz "I'm looking for an interview...100 years ago colonial experience, repeatedly"
Booker Prize winner Yang says hopes literature will serve as lasting force in changing society
Yang Shuangzi, winner of the Booker Prize, “I haven’t left the colonial era yet... I want to promote Taiwan through literature”
Yang Shuangzi “I couldn’t truly say goodbye to colonial rule… I wanted to ask questions through literature”
Yang Shuangzhi "I couldn't truly say goodbye to colonial rule... I wanted to ask questions through literature"
Booker Prize winner Yang hopes literature can 'extend lifespan' of conversations on societal change