Taiwanese author Yang Shuang-zi has won a prestigious U.S. National Book Award in the Translated Literature category for her novel "Taiwan Travelogue." Yang and the novel's English translator Lin King attended the award ceremony in New York City to accept the prize.
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00:00Author Yang Shuangzi has won the U.S. National Book Award in Translated Literature, becoming
00:06the first Taiwanese to receive this prize.
00:08Yang, and the novel's English translator Lin King, accepted the prestigious literary
00:13prize at the awards ceremony in New York City.
00:16Yang's book, Taiwan Travelogue, is a historical fiction novel set in 1938, during Taiwan's
00:22Japanese colonial period.
00:24It explores power dynamics and imperialism, and how they shape the story's central female
00:29relationship.