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Yang Shuang-zi | Daughter of the soil

The Hindu · · 768 words · By Radhika Santhanam
Colonialism and Power Literary Achievement Taiwanese National Identity
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17 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Yang Shuang-zi first developed the idea for her genre-bending novel, Taiwan Travelogue, in 2017.”
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While Wikipedia and web results confirm the existence of the book and the author, none of the provided evidence mentions the specific year 2017 as the origin of the idea.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lin King (Chinese: 金翎; pinyin: Jīn Líng; born December 6, 1993) is a Taiwanese-American writer and translator. In 2024, King and writer Yang Shuang-zi won the National Book Award for Translated Litera…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_King
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Taiwan Travelogue (Chinese: 臺灣漫遊錄) is a novel by Taiwanese writer Yang Shuang-zi. Written in Mandarin, it was first published in 2020 in Taiwan. The book describes the visit of a fictional Japanese wr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Travelogue
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Shuang-zi
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“she formally began work on the book in February 2019 and completed the first draft by August of the same year.”
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The provided Wikipedia entries for the publisher and the prize do not contain the specific timeline of the book's drafting (February to August 2019).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — And Other Stories is an independent British book publisher set up in 2009, notable for being the first United Kingdom publisher of literary fiction to make direct, advance subscriptions a major part o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Other_Stories
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize) is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom. The introduction of the International Prize to co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Booker_Prize
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — These authors and books have won the annual National Book Awards, awarded to American authors by the National Book Foundation based in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_of_the_Nationa…
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“Each chapter in it is named after a Taiwanese dish — roasted seeds, jute soup, beef and vegetable hotpot, leftovers soup, and so on.”
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A web search result explicitly states that 'Each chapter is named after a Taiwanese delicacy – braised minced pork, sliced raw fish, melon tea', which corroborates the claim that chapters are named after Taiwanese dishes.
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web search NEUTRAL — Her novel Taiwan Travelogue was translated from Mandarin Chinese into English by Lin King.In this Chinese name, the family name is Yang. Yang Shuang-zi (Chinese: 楊双子; pinyin: Yáng Shuāngzǐ; born 1984)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Shuang-zi
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web search NEUTRAL — Those anxieties lie at the heart of Taiwan Travelogue, the first book originally written in Mandarin to win the £50,000 prize.Each chapter is named after a Taiwanese delicacy – braised minced pork, sl…
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/21/yang-shuang-zi…
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web search NEUTRAL — Taiwan Travelogue is also the name of the fictional memoir within the novel that Aoyama Chizuko writes about her year in Taiwan, published in Japanese twenty years later.
https://www.full-stop.net/2025/02/19/reviews/amberruthpaulen…
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“Yang had cake on her hands, a detail which “epitomises this whole book”.”
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While multiple sources confirm Yang Shuang-zi won the International Booker Prize, none of the provided evidence mentions the detail about having cake on her hands.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize) is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom. The introduction of the International Prize to co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Booker_Prize
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Taiwan Travelogue (Chinese: 臺灣漫遊錄) is a novel by Taiwanese writer Yang Shuang-zi. Written in Mandarin, it was first published in 2020 in Taiwan. The book describes the visit of a fictional Japanese wr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Travelogue
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Shuang-zi
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“Taiwan Travelogue, published by And Other Stories, is the first English translation of Yang’s work”
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Evidence confirms the book was translated by Lin King and published, but there is no specific mention of the publisher 'And Other Stories' or that this is the 'first' English translation of her work in the provided text.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Heart Lamp: Selected Stories (Kannada: ಎದೆಯ ಹಣತೆ, romanized: edeya haṇate) is a collection of short stories by Indian writer Banu Mushtaq, originally written in Kannada between 1990 and 2023 and trans…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Lamp:_Selected_Stories
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sudha Murty (née Kulkarni; born 19 August 1950) is an Indian educator, author, and philanthropist. She is the Founder-Chairperson of the non-profit charitable organization Infosys Foundation. She is m…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Taiwan Travelogue (Chinese: 臺灣漫遊錄) is a novel by Taiwanese writer Yang Shuang-zi. Written in Mandarin, it was first published in 2020 in Taiwan. The book describes the visit of a fictional Japanese wr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Travelogue
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“She is the first Taiwanese writer to win the International Booker Prize”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that Yang Shuang-zi is the first Taiwanese writer to win the International Booker Prize.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize) is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom. The introduction of the International Prize to co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Booker_Prize
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Taiwan Travelogue (Chinese: 臺灣漫遊錄) is a novel by Taiwanese writer Yang Shuang-zi. Written in Mandarin, it was first published in 2020 in Taiwan. The book describes the visit of a fictional Japanese wr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Travelogue
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Shuang-zi
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“the book is the first translation from Mandarin Chinese to win the prize.”
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Two independent cross-references (The Conversation and EuroNews) explicitly state that the book is the first translation from Mandarin Chinese to win the prize.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — The novel is the first work translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the award in its ten-year history
https://theconversation.com/yang-shuang-z-winner-of-the-inte…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — It is the first novel written in Mandarin Chinese to win the prestigious award for fiction translated into English.
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/05/20/taiwan-travelogu…
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“Yang was born Yang Jo-tzu in 1984 in a village near Taichung, Central Taiwan.”
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Multiple sources confirm she was born in 1984 in Taichung and that her given name is Yang Jo-tzu.
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web search NEUTRAL — Yang Shuang-Zi. Born in Taichung in 1984, Yang Shuang-Zi is a novelist and researcher of genre fiction and youth subcultures.
https://booksfromtaiwan.moc.gov.tw/authors_info.php?id=577
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web search NEUTRAL — Given name Yang Jo-Tzu, Yang Shuang Zi was born in 1984 in Wuri, Taichung and is the older of two twin sisters.
https://www.nmtl.gov.tw/en/News_Content.aspx?n=3931&s=217563
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web search NEUTRAL — 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Shuang-zi
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“She adopted the pen name ‘Shuang-zi’, meaning twins, in memory of her twin sister, Yang Jo-hui, who died of cancer in 2015.”
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“Literature arguably contributed to the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Taiwan in 2019.”
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“Taiwan Travelogue is set in 1938 — a few decades before Yang was born — when Taiwan was under Japanese rule.”
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“Yang, who is also a writer of Manga, video game scripts, and fiction, was awarded Taiwan’s highest literary honour, the Golden Tripod Award, for the original Mandarin Chinese version of Taiwan Travelogue, published in 2020.”
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“Lin King’s English-language translation won the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2024.”
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“Now, the book has been published, or is slated for publication, in several languages, including Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Ukrainian, Italian, German, Dutch, Danish, and Greek.”
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“It is not available in the People’s Republic of China”
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“following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, she made the “explicit decision that rather than translating Sinophile works indiscriminately”, she would “only translate writing from Taiwan in the foreseeable future”.”
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“jointly receive the £50,000 International Booker Prize for 2026 at Tate Modern in London last week”
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