Balgarianovinite.com Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi in an English translation by Lin King is the winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize 2026. The name was revealed at a ceremony at Tate Modern in London shortly after midnight on Tuesday.
Among this year’s nominees was Bulgarian writer Rene Karabash with her novel She Who Remains, translated into English by Izidora Angel.
The ceremony was streamed live on YouTube.
It is the second Bulgarian novel shortlisted for the International Booker Prize after Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel, which won the award in 2023.
In a social media post ahead of the ceremony, the Bulgarian publisher of She Who Remains, Janet 45, said that whoever the jury chooses as the winner, “it is a tremendous honor and joy to once again have a Bulgarian author shortlisted for this most prestigious international award, and we are immensely proud that the translation of the novel Ostainitsa has been nominated”. “For us at Janet 45, as well as for all admirers of contemporary Bulgarian literature, Rene Karabash is already a major prize in herself – through her talent, so powerfully realized in this magnificent novel.”
The other shortlisted titles this year include The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar, The Director by Daniel Kehlmann, On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia, and The Witch by Marie NDiaye.
A total of 128 books translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland over the past 12 months were submitted this year. The jury first selected a longlist of 13 books before narrowing it down to a shortlist of six.
The winning author and translator share a GBP 50,000 prize equally, while the remaining shortlisted titles each receive GBP 5,000, also split between author and translator.
Rene Karabash (born Irena Ivanova) was born in 1989. She is a poet, writer, screenwriter, and playwright. She is the founder and organizer of the writers’ academy “Rabbit Hole”. For her novel She Who Remains she received the Bulgarian national literary award Elias Canetti, a nomination for Novel of the Year from the “13 Centuries of Bulgaria” National Endowment Fund, and the Peroto (Quill) literary award. The novel has been translated into 15 languages, with its Brazilian edition making it the first Bulgarian novel published in that South American country.
At the end of 2023, Marie Vrina-Nikolov won the French PEN Club Award for her French translation of She Who Remains. In the same year, the English translation by Izidora Angel was awarded the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation (in the United States), and in early 2025, it received the Heim Award from the American PEN Club. The novel has also been nominated for the Swedish literary award Prisma. She Who Remains was included in Service 95’s list of the “21 Best Upcoming Books of 2026”, the literary book club of performer Dua Lipa. Taiwan Travelogue Wins International Booker Prize, Bulgaria’s Rene Karabash Was Shortlisted 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-05-19 06:11:00 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law