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Inside And Other Stories: The Sheffield-based small press taking translated fiction to a global stage
And Other Stories base their offices in Sheffield’s City Library, behind the Steel City’s metalwork archives. They are a one-of-a-kind independent press. With back-to-back International Booker Prize wins for Heart Lamp in 2025 and Taiwan Travelogue earlier this year, And Other Stories is forging an exciting future for translated fiction on a global stage.
Everything you need to know about Taiwan Travelogue, winner of the International Booker Prize 2026
As the winner of this year’s International Booker Prize is announced, here’s the lowdown on the triumphant book, its author and translator Publication date and time: Published May 19, 2026 Why did Taiwan Travelogue win? Natasha Brown, Chair of judges, said: ‘Can love overcome a power imbalance? Taiwan Travelogue, winner of the International Booker Prize 2026, teases out the nuances of this question against a backdrop of 1930s Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule.
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May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite can bear. Soon, a Taiwanese woman – who is younger even than she is – is hired as her interpreter.
An extract from Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King
“Hold on. What’s going on here?” I couldn’t help but voice the thought out loud. For, in that moment, I seemed to have been transported back into the midst of Shōkyokusai Tenkatsu’s Magic Troupe. I’d crossed paths with Tenkatsu’s troupe long ago, before I’d started high school. They had been on tour, and on the day they arrived in Nagasaki, my aunt Kikuko and I happened upon the opening parade.
Comparative genome analysis of patulin-producing Penicillium paneum OM1 isolated from pears
Comparative genome analysis of patulin-producing Penicillium paneum OM1 isolated from pears Department of Food and Nutrition, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of South Korea DOI 10.7717/peerj.19848 Academic Editor Sushanta Deb Subject Areas Agricultural Science, Genomics, Mycology Keywords Biosynthetic gene cluster, Genome sequence, Patulin biosynthetic gene, Penicillium paneum OM1, Secondary metabolite Copyright © Licence This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the...
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