Lin King on 'Taiwan Travelogue' (Nominated for the International Booker Prize-2026)

Guest for this Episode is Writer, Translator Lin King -

Lin King is a writer and translator based in Taipei and New York

Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Boston Review, and Joyland, among others, and has received the PEN/Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

Translations include the graphic novel series The Boy from Clearwater by Yu Pei-Yun and Zhou Jian-Xin.

Her debut novel, Weeb, is forthcoming from Holt.

Her translation of the novel Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, which won the 2024 National Book Award in Translated Literature. 'Taiwan Travelogue' is longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026.

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