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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lin King, who translated Yang Shuang-zi's #TaiwanTravelogue from Mandarin to English, charges an European publisher for copyright infringement over commissioning a translator who cannot read Mandarin to create a third-language translation using King's English text, original footnotes, and afterword.

How is a translated work distinct from the original work? In literature, there is no such thing as an “objectively accurate” translation. Even this statement you are reading can be translated into millions of word permutations. Language is an imprecise human creation that evolves, imprecisely, over time. This is a concept that the public understands in the context of classical texts like The Odyssey, but less deference is paid to a translator’s creative authority in contemporary literature.

一部翻譯作品，如何與原著是不同的個體？翻譯文學中，並沒有所謂「客觀精準」的標準答案。就連您正在閱讀的這段文字，也能被翻譯成數百萬種用字組合。語言本身就是人類創造的不精準產物，且隨著時間不精準地演化。對於《奧德賽》這類古典作品的不同譯本，大眾似乎都能理解這個概念，但是面對當代文學，譯者的創作自主權卻鮮有對等的尊重。

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What a delight to welcome Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translator @linkinglionking.bsky.social and our friends at @andotherstories.bsky.social to the shop yesterday to sign copies of Taiwan Travelogue. If you didn't get tickets for their @edbookfest.bsky.social event, we still have some signed copies left!

The author and translator of Taiwan Travelogue stand in front of bookshelves holding copies of the book.

The author and translator of Taiwan Travelogue stand in front of bookshelves behind a big pile of the book.

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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Next, next Saturday at CKS Memorial Hall! A discussion on presenting Taiwan's stories for a global audience between Ghost Island Media's @emilyywu.com and @linkinglionking.bsky.social, translator of this year's Booker Prize winner, "Taiwan Travelogue" 📖 July 18: event.culture.tw/mocweb/reg/C...

https://www.cksmh.gov.tw/News_Content.aspx?n=6216&s=258151

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Riverhead Books @riverheadbooks.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The next addition to our contemporary Chinese-language literature series is an award-winning sensation in Taiwan! Presenting: A Perfect Day to Put Your Head in the Oven by Lee Chia-Ying, translated by @linkinglionking.bsky.social 💚 Available Jan 12, 2027: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813900...

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We are thrilled that TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE has been announced as the winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize! Congratulations to author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translator Lin King, and our publishing partners in the UK, And Other Stories 🎉 thebookerprizes.com/internationa...

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 20/05/2026

♥️ powerful speech by Lin King, translator of Taiwan Travelogue @linkinglionking.bsky.social

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

We are thrilled to share that TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE has been shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize! Congratulations to author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translator @linkinglionking.bsky.social, and our publishing partners in the UK @andotherstories.bsky.social 🎉🎉 thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 ALTA First Translation Prize: TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King @linkinglionking.bsky.social, ed. Yuka Igarashi, pub. Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social! literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

These 12 mentorships available in 2026: 📚 Children's Lit from a S. Asian Language w. @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social 📚 Korean Prose w. Janet Hong 📚 Korean Poetry w. @daybreakjung.bsky.social 📚 Japanese w. @tnieda.bsky.social 📚 Kannada w. Deepa Bhasthi 📚 Lit from Taiwan w. @linkinglionking.bsky.social

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Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club (TFCC) @taiwanfcc.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

On August 13, as part of our TFCCxATJ Talk Series, we hosted award-winning writer and translator Lin King (@linkinglionking.bsky.social) to discuss the role of Taiwanese literature on the world stage. The event was moderated by TFCC board director @brianhioe.bsky.social. Photos: William Chen

Lin King (left) and TFCC board director Brian Hioe (right)

Lin King (left) and TFCC board member Brian Hioe (right)

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Chris Fan 范致忠 @chrisfan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

My review of two new novels about Taiwan: @brianhioe.bsky.social’s Taipei at Daybreak (first novel in English about the Sunflower Movement) & Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue (whose English translation by @linkinglionking.bsky.social won the '24 National Book Award & the Baifang Schell Prize).

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Movement Injuries | Los Angeles Review of Books

Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”

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Asia Society New York @newyork.asiasociety.org · 13/05/2025

Congratulations to @ewong.bsky.social, Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, and @linkinglionking.bsky.social, the inaugural winners of the Baifang Schell Book Prize from @chinabksreview.bsky.social!

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