Taiwan Travelogue is the first book translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the International Booker Prize. The novel, which takes the form of a fictional translation of a rediscovered Japanese travel memoir, explores history, power, class, colonialism and love through the lens of two women’s culinary tour across Japan-controlled Taiwan in the 1930s. Read the news here.

Read Paper Republic has published the English translation of a short story by Yang Shuangzi -- "The Bug Princess". Read Francesca Jordan's translation here.